Exocentric root declaratives: Evidence from V2
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Andreas Blümel
Abstract
In this paper I argue that V2-structures in (mostly) Germanic provide evidence for the necessity to avoid labeling in root (-like) contexts, i.e. they instantiate systematic and obligatory failures of the two strategies to label XPYP- structures suggested in Chomsky 2013, 2014: In declarative contexts, the prefield must be occupied to prevent specification of category of α = {XP, CPV2}. I show how this approach not only makes sense conceptually, but elegantly solves riddles of prefield-occupation (“Vorfeldbesetzung”).
Abstract
In this paper I argue that V2-structures in (mostly) Germanic provide evidence for the necessity to avoid labeling in root (-like) contexts, i.e. they instantiate systematic and obligatory failures of the two strategies to label XPYP- structures suggested in Chomsky 2013, 2014: In declarative contexts, the prefield must be occupied to prevent specification of category of α = {XP, CPV2}. I show how this approach not only makes sense conceptually, but elegantly solves riddles of prefield-occupation (“Vorfeldbesetzung”).
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
