Is Transfer strong enough to affect labels?
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Miki Obata
Abstract
This paper explores how strong the Transfer operation (Chomsky 2004) is. Is it strong enough to eliminate syntactic representations completely from the narrow syntax? Or does Transfer only make transferred domain inaccessible to further operations in the narrow syntax (i.e. weak Transfer)? By considering structure-building of adjuncts, this paper demonstrates that Transfer needs to be weak enough to leave some pieces in the narrow syntax for further application of Merge and the Labeling Algorithm.
Abstract
This paper explores how strong the Transfer operation (Chomsky 2004) is. Is it strong enough to eliminate syntactic representations completely from the narrow syntax? Or does Transfer only make transferred domain inaccessible to further operations in the narrow syntax (i.e. weak Transfer)? By considering structure-building of adjuncts, this paper demonstrates that Transfer needs to be weak enough to leave some pieces in the narrow syntax for further application of Merge and the Labeling Algorithm.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- Merge, labeling and their interactions 17
- Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y} 47
- Features and labeling: Label-driven movement 69
- Labeling and other syntactic operations 91
- Is Transfer strong enough to affect labels? 117
- Clausal arguments as syntactic satellites: A reappraisal 127
- A labelling-based account of the Head-Final Filter 161
- The structural configurations of root categorization 203
- How Unlabelled Nodes work: Morphological derivations and the subcomponents of UG operations 233
- Exocentric root declaratives: Evidence from V2 263
- Index 291
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- Merge, labeling and their interactions 17
- Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y} 47
- Features and labeling: Label-driven movement 69
- Labeling and other syntactic operations 91
- Is Transfer strong enough to affect labels? 117
- Clausal arguments as syntactic satellites: A reappraisal 127
- A labelling-based account of the Head-Final Filter 161
- The structural configurations of root categorization 203
- How Unlabelled Nodes work: Morphological derivations and the subcomponents of UG operations 233
- Exocentric root declaratives: Evidence from V2 263
- Index 291
