Partial Movement Constructions, Pied Piping, and Higher Order Choice Functions
Wolfgang Sternefeld · Akademie Verlag eBooks · 2001
The aim of this paper is to tie together three seemingly unrelated issues discussed in von Stechow (1996a) and von Stechow (2000a) (also published as von Stechow 1996b, and von Stechow 2000b). The first is Pied Piping at LF, the second is the so-called Partial Movement or Scope Marking construction, and the third concerns choice functions in natural language semantics. I start by discussing the analysis of partial movement in Horvath (1997) and Horvath (2000), which involves the kind of LF pied piping also discussed (and criticized) in von Stechow (1996a). I will then, using higher order choice functions, propose an alternative analysis that is immune to the criticism raised by von Stechow. Finally, I will show that the method employed to handle the data from Hungarian can also be used to semantically interpret pied piping in general.