Abstract
AbstractThe final diagnostic discussed in this book is movement, which is the focus of this chapter. It will be shown that restrictions to the movement capacity of pseudo-incorporated arguments are by no means uniform across languages. Whereas Mongolian and Tamil display complete immobility of PNI-ed arguments, Korean allows for clause-internal but not long scrambling. Turkish allows for short, intermediate, and long scrambling. Identical observations hold for VP-movement in the languages, respectively. The parallelism of PNI and VP movement can be most clearly shown with German, a language which, although not allowing case drop, has been argued to pseudo-incorporate bare plurals and non-specific indefinites. PNI-ed arguments do not scramble, yet they can undergo topicalization - the identical movement patterns are observed for VPs in German. The account is implemented within phase theory, where scrambling and topicalization is triggered by category sensitive probe features.
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