(Re)labeling
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 creat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2015
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| Series: | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 190 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262327220 0262327228 |