A Note on movement in logical grammar
Glyn V. Morrill · Journal of Language Modelling · 2019
In this article we make remarks on overt and covert movement inlogical grammar. With respect to the latter (e.g. quantification) weobserve how a treatment in terms of displacement calculus interactswith normal modalities for intensionality to allow a coding in logicalgrammar of the distinction between weak and strong quantifiers(i.e. those that may or may not not scope nonlocally such as'a' and 'every' respectively). With respect to overt movement (e.g.relativisation) we observe how displacement calculus supportsa coding of a filler-gap dependency similar to that employed in lambdagrammars, but we argue that this general approach does not extend toparasitic gaps, for which we propose exponentials.