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This study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.e., of 'movement' phenomena. Derivations are conceived of as a compositional process that constructs larger syntactic units out of smaller ones without any phrase-structure representations, as in categorial grammars. It is demonstrated that a simple extension of this view can account for dislocation without gap features, chains, or structural transformations. Basically, it is assumed that movement 'splits' a syntactic expression into two parts, which form a derivational unit but enter separately into the formation of larger constituents. The study shows that in this approach, if common assumptions about selection and licensing are added, a small and coherent set of axioms suffices to deduce fundamental syntactic generalizations that transformational theories express in terms of X-bar-Theory and various constraints on movement. These generalizations include, for example, equivalents to the C-Command Condition and the Head Movement Constraint, the 'structure-preserving' nature of dislocation, its 'economical' character, and elementary bounding principles.

Constituent structure grammar --- Grammaire structurale des constituants de la phrase --- Grammaire à structure de phrase --- Structuurgrammatica van de woordgroepen --- Woordgroepstructuur-grammatica --- Phrase structure grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phrase structure grammar --- Grammar, Phrase structure --- Generative grammar --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Syntaxe