| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs ; 70 |
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Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 70.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. A Plea for Words -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. No Morphology Module? -- 1.3. Words Have an Intrinsic Category -- 1.4. Conclusion -- 2. Labels from X-Bar Theory to Phrase Structure Theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The X-Bar Schema -- 2.3. Bare Phrase Structure: Dealing with Inclusiveness -- 2.4. The Symmetry Problem -- 2.5. The Linearization Problem -- 2.6. Projection = Labels: Defending an Internal Definition -- 2.7. The Head Algorithm (or Words Are Special) -- 2.8. The Movement Algorithm -- 2.9. The Probing Algorithm -- 2.10. Conclusion -- 3. Relativization as a Case of Relabeling -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Free Relatives -- 3.3. Externally Headed Relatives -- 3.4. Reduced Relatives -- 3.5. Internally Headed Relatives: The Case of LIS |
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3.6. Conclusion -- 4. Successive-Cyclic Movement and Its Constraints: Cyclicity and Islands -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Can Merge Be Free? -- 4.3. Successive-Cyclic Movement -- 4.4. The Complex NP Constraint -- 4.5. Clausal "Complements" of Nouns Give Rise to Garden Path Effects: An Experimental Confirmation -- 4.6. Extending the Account to Other Strong Islands -- 4.7. The Islandhood of Peripheral Adverbial Clauses -- 4.8. What about "Complements" of Nouns? -- 4.9. Conclusion -- 5. Gross Minimality -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Gross Minimality -- 5.3. Subject Intervention in Root Questions -- 5.4. Subject Intervention in Child Grammar -- 5.5. Gradient Gross Minimality Effects -- 5.6. Drawing the Threads of the Argument Together: Back to (Free) Relatives -- 5.7. Conclusion -- 6. Conclusion (and Openings) |
| Summary |
This book owes its title to a simple idea: words are special because they can provide a label for nothing when they merge with some other category. An exemplification of this special power of words is introduced by the familiar head-complement configurations. For example, the structure that is created when a verb and a direct object DP are merged receives a label from the verb, namely it is a VP. One idea that unifies the linguistic analyses presented in this book is that a word can provide the label even in case of movement |
| Analysis |
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Parallelism (Linguistics)
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Generative grammar.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Generative grammar
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Parallelism (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Donati, Caterina, author.
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| ISBN |
9780262327220 |
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0262327228 |
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0262028727 |
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9780262028721 |
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0262527219 |
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9780262527217 |
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