Agreement and Its Failures /
This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of phi-agreement itself. This includes, but is not limited to, the 'uninterpretable features' of Chomsky 2000, 2001. Instead, it requires recourse to an operation - one whose invocation is obligatory, but whose successful culmination is not enforced by the grammar. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780262323192 |