Property Delay (Remarks on “Phase Extension” by Marcel den Dikken)
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David Pesetsky
Abstract
1. Truth in unpackaging
In his paper, den Dikken argues that several syntactic and semantic phenomena provide evidence for a package of proposals that includes the following four claims:
(1) Phase Extension
“Syntactic movement of the head H of a phase α up to the head X of the node β dominating α extends the phase up from α to β; α loses its phasehood in the process, and any constituent on the edge of α ends up in the domain of the derived phase β as a result of Phase Extension”. (den Dikken's (3))
(2) Phase Impenetrability Condition as in Chomsky (2000, passim) [PIC] “[I]n phase α with head H, the domain [of H] is not accessible to operations outside α, only H and its edge are accessible to such operations”. (den Dikken's (1))
(3) Adjunction Prohibition
“[A]djunction to meaningless categories is disallowed.”
(den Dikken's (18))
(4) Inherent Phase
“[A]n inherent phase is a predication (subject–predicate structure).”
(den Dikken's (2))
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Phase Extension Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction
- Phases and Explanatory Adequacy: Contrasting two programs
- Notes on Phase Extension
- A critique of Phase Extension, with a comparison to Phase Sliding
- Extended phases & beheaded phrases Comments on Marcel den Dikken's ‘Phase Extension’
- Some thoughts on Phase Extension to a single interface
- Predication and escape hatches in Phase Extension Theory
- Property Delay (Remarks on “Phase Extension” by Marcel den Dikken)
- On Phase Extension and head movement
- Phase Extension: A reply
