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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cecchetto, Carlo (Autor), Donati, Caterina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.
  • 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).