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# Oral Presentation for "A layering theory of the A/Ā‐distinction"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Colley, Justin (2021).
  Oral Presentation for "A layering theory of the A/Ā‐distinction".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Presentation. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481783


Corresponding Author:
  Justin Colley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jcolley@mit.edu


License:
  CC0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481783



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## Summary

This talk was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the West
Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).

Provided abstract:
Phrasal displacements pattern into two types, A-movement and Ā-movement, with
puzzlingly disparate properties. I argue for an architecture in which the
elements targeted by Ā-movement are added countercyclically, in what Thoms
(2019) calls a layering derivation. This leads to a unified explanation of
other A/Ā-properties, including the Ban on Improper Movement, the failure to
feed case/agreement, the distribution of pied-piping and Principle C
reconstruction.



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401