ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 proposes that prosody can activate some syntactic operations by moving constituents out of their original positions, which is called prosodically motivated syntactic movements as Prosodic Movement (P-movement, for short). Syntactic movements result from the interaction among syntactic rules and principles. In the same vein, P-movements are results of the interaction among prosodic rules and rules of other modules in the language. In this chapter, we will discuss seven types of P-movements, namely, the prosodically motivated object movement, the prosodically motivated preposition incorporation, the prosodically constrained placement of PPs, the prosodically motivated PP adjunction, the prosodically motivated verb incorporation, the prosodically motivated Pseudo-VO forms and the prosodically motivated resultative incorporation.
