Remarks on features
Författare
Redaktör
- Kleanthes Grohman
Summary, in English
This paper pursues the idea that uninterpretable features are not present in syntax, but are instead a product of the interfaces. In particular, it argues that formal feature values belong to PF only, i.e., that they are not syntactic objects but PF ‘translations’ of more abstract syntactic structures and correlations. It follows that case is nonexistent in syntax and it also follows that agreement is a PF copying process, differing radically from abstract, syntactic Agree. Accordingly, much of the work of traditional syntax happens in PF and is thus invisible to the semantic interface, SF, that is, the computation proceeds on the PF side after transfer.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
21-52
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Explorations of phase theory
Volym
18
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Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Mouton de Gruyter
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- GRIMM
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1861-4167
- ISBN: 978-3-11-021396-6