Labeling and other syntactic operations
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Petr Biskup
Abstract
This article proposes certain modifications to the minimalist system, among which labeling plays a prominent role. It argues for a specific model of cyclic Transfer, where every operation Merge constitutes a phase. The operation labeling is a prerequisite of Transfer and can be delayed. This allows syntactic objects to escape from a phase. Because of the early Transfer, movement is triggered by a greedy feature on the moving syntactic object. It is shown that the proposed system can straightforwardly derive the following movement phenomena: freezing effects, order preservation in multiple movement, the prohibition of headless XP-movement and the ban on acyclic combinations of incorporations. It is also shown that the proposal has certain advantages over Chomsky’s minimalist system.
Abstract
This article proposes certain modifications to the minimalist system, among which labeling plays a prominent role. It argues for a specific model of cyclic Transfer, where every operation Merge constitutes a phase. The operation labeling is a prerequisite of Transfer and can be delayed. This allows syntactic objects to escape from a phase. Because of the early Transfer, movement is triggered by a greedy feature on the moving syntactic object. It is shown that the proposed system can straightforwardly derive the following movement phenomena: freezing effects, order preservation in multiple movement, the prohibition of headless XP-movement and the ban on acyclic combinations of incorporations. It is also shown that the proposal has certain advantages over Chomsky’s minimalist system.
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
