(Re)labeling /
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 creat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs ;
70 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780262327220 0262327228 0262028727 9780262028721 0262527219 9780262527217 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028721.001.0001 |