1. Relabeling Heads: A Unified Account for Relativization Structures
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Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati, Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Lumières (UPL), Donati, C, Cecchetto, C, and Cecchetto, Carlo
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060201 languages & linguistics ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,Linguistics and Language ,Head (linguistics) ,Phrase structure rules ,06 humanities and the arts ,[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics ,16. Peace & justice ,Language and Linguistics ,Lexical item ,Noun phrase ,Linguistics ,relatives clauses, labeling, head-movement, noun complementation, free relatives, pseudorelatives ,M-FIL/05 - FILOSOFIA E TEORIA DEI LINGUAGGI ,030507 speech-language pathology & audiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Noun ,0602 languages and literature ,Full Relative ,[SCCO.LING] Cognitive science/Linguistics ,0305 other medical science ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,L-LIN/01 - GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA ,Mathematics - Abstract
A tenet of any version of phrase structure theory is that a lexical item can transmit its label when merged with another category. We assume that if it is internally merged, a lexical item can turn a clause into a nominal phrase. If the relabeling lexical item is a wh-word, a free relative results; if it is an N, a full relative results; if it is a non-wh D, a pseudorelative results. It follows that the head of a relative construction cannot be more complex than a lexical item. We show massive evidence that when it is otherwise (e.g., the book about Obama that you bought), the modifier is late-merged after the noun has moved and relabeled the structure. © 2011 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- 2011
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