Books by New York University) Collins

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.

An extended argument for a syntactic view of NEG raising with consequences for the syntax of negation and negative polarity items.