A minimalist approach to scrambling: Evidence from Persian

Acknowledgements......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
1. The goal of the project......Page 16
2. Persian syntax: an overview......Page 18
3. Scrambling in Persian......Page 31
4. Theoretical assumptions......Page 35
5. The outline of the monograph......Page 43
1. Introduction......Page 48
2. Base-generation approach......Page 49
3. Scrambling as syntactic movement......Page 60
4. Why does Lx, but not Ly, allow scrambling?......Page 76
5. Conclusion......Page 81
1. Introduction......Page 84
2. Subject in Persian......Page 86
3. Objects in Persian......Page 119
4. Persian as a topic-prominent language......Page 126
5. The role of T......Page 128
6. Local scrambling: A-movement?......Page 130
7. Conclusion......Page 131
1. Introduction......Page 137
2. Adverbs......Page 139
3. Topic positions......Page 143
4. Focus......Page 146
5. Restrictions on scrambling......Page 173
6. Conclusion......Page 176
1. Introduction......Page 179
2. Scope marking......Page 180
3. Binding......Page 188
4. Conclusion......Page 206
1. Introduction......Page 210
2. Island conditions......Page 211
3. Scrambling and island effects......Page 216
4. Processing effects......Page 224
5. Argument/adjunct structure effects......Page 228
6. Representation versus derivation......Page 234
7. Conclusion......Page 238
1. Introduction......Page 240
2. Is typology of movement a myth?......Page 241
3. Syntactic positions and interpretation......Page 246
4. Derivational versus representational syntax......Page 256
5. Further research......Page 258
References......Page 261
Subject Index......Page 274
Author Index......Page 278