By Margaret Speas (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0792308662
ISBN-13: 9780792308669
ISBN-10: 9400920458
ISBN-13: 9789400920453
`Her booklet merits a interpreting via a person drawn to questions of word structure.'
Language, 69
`Speas' e-book is a distinct and entire presentation of the way syntactic constitution is projected from lexical goods, and the way the syntactic range of the world's languages may perhaps accordingly be obvious from a unified standpoint. hugely readable in its review of the theoretical backgroud, and in its account of latest advancements and their results, this can be a precious and stimulating textbook for any direction in syntactic constitution and typological variation.'
Kenneth L. Hale, MIT, Cambridge, USA
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It would be possible to amend the formal X-bar schema in order to allow iteration in intermediate nodes, and in frameworks such as those of Kayne (1983) and Huang (1982) in which all trees are binary branching such an amendment would be a necessity. To make this amendment, we might add an X-bar principle such as the following, as suggested by Richardson (1984): (32) X --. X YP* Along similar lines, Ernst (1987) has suggested that the X-bar schema may be expressed as follows: (33) xn --. xn-l YP* X" --.
In these examples, then, the ordering follows from conditions on Case and theta role assignment, and bar level does not add any restrictions. She goes on to argue that no rules of grammar (movement, pronominalization or conjunction) make reference to distinctions among intermediate bar levels. I will focus on the pronominalization cases, and will simply follow Chomsky (1986a, 1986b) in assuming that Move Alpha moves anything anywhere, but that X constituents are rarely moved, since they have no available landing site and such movement would improperly strand specifiers.
B. If X discharges a thematic role in Y then it discharges only one. (p. 561) I assume, then, that the second clause of the Projection Principle is also dispensable, given the above statement of the Theta Criterion. The third clause of the Projection Principle is not dispensable; it constrains the relations among the syntactic levels. In the terminology that I am using here, I would say that the Projection Principle requires that UTAH and the Theta Criterion hold at all syntactic levels. The general conditions in addition to X-bar theory which constrain the mapping from the Lexicon to Syntax may now be summarized as follows: (20) THE LICENSING CONDITION: Every element in a structure must be licensed.
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