(Re)labeling / Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati.

(Re)labeling / Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati.

9780262327220 (electronic bk.)
0262327228 (electronic bk.)
0262028727
9780262028721
0262527219
9780262527217

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

2015

English

1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) : illustrations.

P291 .C364 2015eb

415

This book owes its title to a simple idea: words are special because they can provide a label for nothing when they merge with some other category. An exemplification of this special power of words is introduced by the familiar head-complement configurations. For example, the structure that is created when a verb and a direct object DP are merged receives a label from the verb, namely it is a VP. One idea that unifies the linguistic analyses presented in this book is that a word can provide the label even in case of movement.

This book owes its title to a simple idea: words are special because they can provide a label for nothing when they merge with some other category. An exemplification of this special power of words is introduced by the familiar head-complement configurations. For example, the structure that is created when a verb and a direct object DP are merged receives a label from the verb, namely it is a VP. One idea that unifies the linguistic analyses presented in this book is that a word can provide the label even in case of movement.

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