Labels and Roots

• Main Authors: Bauke, Leah, Blümel, Andreas
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel/Berlin/Boston De Gruyter, Inc 2017; De Gruyter Mouton
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in generative grammar
• Subjects: Generative grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general-Syntax

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterio...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Merge, labeling and their interactions -- Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y} -- Features and labeling: Label-driven movement -- Labeling and other syntactic operations -- Is Transfer strong enough to affect labels? -- Clausal arguments as syntactic satellites: A reappraisal -- A labelling-based account of the Head-Final Filter -- The structural configurations of root categorization -- How Unlabelled Nodes work: Morphological derivations and the subcomponents of UG operations -- Exocentric root declaratives: Evidence from V2 -- Index