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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461126203321

Autore

Cecchetto Carlo

Titolo

(Re)labeling / / Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32723-6

0-262-32722-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages)

Collana

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs ; ; 70

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Parallelism (Linguistics)

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.