Q-Float in West Ulster English and labeling

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Published: Dec 1, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/yplm-2018-0003
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Q-Float, Irish, Successive-cyclic Movement, Distributed Deletion

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Andreas Blümel
University of Göttingen

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In this paper I contrast a stranding analysis of Q-float in intermediate A′-positions in West Ulster English with the labeling analysis of successive-cyclic A′-movement and show that the former represents a problem for the latter. If we want to retain the labeling analysis, alternatives to stranding must come forward, some of which I discuss here.

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Blümel, A. (2018). Q-Float in West Ulster English and labeling. Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 4(1), 55-73. https://doi.org/10.2478/yplm-2018-0003
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