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SUMMARY:A head movement approach to the manner-of-directed-motion paramete
 r - Professor Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster)
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CONTACT:Theodora Alexopoulou
DESCRIPTION:Can the well-known verb-framed/satellite-framed variation obse
 rved by Talmy (1975 et seq.) be productively analyzed as a true parameter\
 , or is it in fact something else\, perhaps a morphological tendency of in
 dividual lexical items in a given language? Here we defend the view that i
 t is indeed a parameter\, of a well-understood type: a head-movement param
 eter. We claim that it results from the variety of uninterpretable feature
  that is bundled with the flavor of v which is used in change-of-state con
 structions. The technical apparatus employed is another instance of a typi
 cal head-movement parameter\, of the kind that accounts for the familiar V
 -to-T or T-to-C parameters. We claim that in verb-framed languages\, head-
 movement to change of state v° is mandatory\, just as head-movement to fi
 nite T° is mandatory in V-to-T languages. The appeal of this approach in 
 contrast to previous analyses is that it does not ascribe a deficiency to 
 verb-framed languages\, either in their semantic composition inventory\, o
 r their inventory of structural operations\, both of which seem prima faci
 e implausible from a biolinguistic/Minimalist perspective. 
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