Determining Pair-Merge
| Autor: | Edward J. Rubin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Linguistic Inquiry. 34:660-668 |
| ISSN: | 1530-9150 0024-3892 |
| Popis: | Chomsky (2001) proposes that the distinction between adjuncts and phrases in other grammatical relations follows from the way in which they are each introduced into structures. In particular, he distinguishes between the basic mechanisms of set-Merge and pair-Merge. A fundamental question left unanswered in his work is how the Narrow Syntax component of the derivational system can determine that pair-Merge is required in the integration of adjuncts into structures, rather than the default set-Merge. This squib proposes that the answer to this question derives from the (obligatory) existence of a functional category, Mod, in the structure of adjuncts ([Mod [ YP Adjunct]]) that is parallel in nature to the (obligatory) functional categories in nominals and clauses |
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