Syntactic labels and their derivations
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Randall Hendrick
Abstract
There has been some interest in minimalist theories in deriving category label from a head of phrase without having to stipulate them directly. This paper investigates syntactic labels and their derivation, and considers whether the head of a phrase and the label it supplies are fixed and unique throughout a derivation or whether they can change from one step of a derivation to the next. The response is that a minimalist version of the familiar Projection Principle is required to answer this question negatively, and produces some evidence from selection in English and in Tongan light verb constructions to support this view.
Abstract
There has been some interest in minimalist theories in deriving category label from a head of phrase without having to stipulate them directly. This paper investigates syntactic labels and their derivation, and considers whether the head of a phrase and the label it supplies are fixed and unique throughout a derivation or whether they can change from one step of a derivation to the next. The response is that a minimalist version of the familiar Projection Principle is required to answer this question negatively, and produces some evidence from selection in English and in Tongan light verb constructions to support this view.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Phrasal and clausal architecture 1
- Restructuring and clausal architecture in Kannada 8
- The position of adverbials 25
- Bare, generic, mass, and referential Arabic DPs 40
- The possessor raising construction and the interpretation of subject 66
- Syntactic labels and their derivations 93
- Separating “Focus Movement” from Focus 108
- In search for Phases 146
- Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian 167
- Structure preservingness, internal Merge, and the strict locality of triads 188
- Using description to teach (about) prescription 206
- ‘More complicated and hence, rarer’ 221
- Prescriptive grammar 243
- The syntax of valuation and the interpretability of features 262
- Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in L2 acquisition? 295
- Minimalism vs. organic syntax 319
- Location and locality 339
- Conceptual space 365
- ‘Adjunct theta-roles’ and the configurational determination of roles 396
- Author index 412
- Subject index 417
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Phrasal and clausal architecture 1
- Restructuring and clausal architecture in Kannada 8
- The position of adverbials 25
- Bare, generic, mass, and referential Arabic DPs 40
- The possessor raising construction and the interpretation of subject 66
- Syntactic labels and their derivations 93
- Separating “Focus Movement” from Focus 108
- In search for Phases 146
- Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian 167
- Structure preservingness, internal Merge, and the strict locality of triads 188
- Using description to teach (about) prescription 206
- ‘More complicated and hence, rarer’ 221
- Prescriptive grammar 243
- The syntax of valuation and the interpretability of features 262
- Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in L2 acquisition? 295
- Minimalism vs. organic syntax 319
- Location and locality 339
- Conceptual space 365
- ‘Adjunct theta-roles’ and the configurational determination of roles 396
- Author index 412
- Subject index 417
