The syntactic projection of morphological categories
In this thesis I set out to test three hypotheses about the organization of the Grammar; (1) That the grammar can be given a declarative interpretation, and thus no extrinsic ordering or rules is available, and that syntactic structures have a compositional semantics; (2) That all transparent concatenation results from operations of the rules of syntax; and (3) That all syntactic projections must be phonetically visible. Further, I have assumed that the relationship between the lexicon and syntactic representations is monotonic. In testing these hypotheses I develop an underspecified tree representation for lexical entries which allows lexical information to be organized in a manner which is immediately interpretable by the syntax. These lexical trees, through the formal processes of unification and tree adjunction and the operation of X-bar, yield D-structure. I propose a parametrization of case-assigning ability into the distribution of the features [+ /-NECESSARY] and [+ /-UNIQUE] and use this to derive the Extended Projection Principle (for English) and to account for agreement in Labrador Inuttus. This move forces me to arrive at a new treatment of passive in English, however, as verbs in English have
Tait, Mary Esther
The syntactic projection of morphological categories. In this thesis I set out to test three hypotheses about the organization of the Grammar; (1) That the grammar can be given a declarative interpretation, and thus no extrinsic ordering or rules is available, and that syntactic structures have a compositional semantics; (2) That all transparent concatenation results from operations of the rules of syntax; and (3) That all syntactic projections must be phonetically visible. Further, I have assumed that the relationship between the lexicon and syntactic representations is monotonic. In testing these hypotheses I develop an underspecified tree representation for lexical entries which allows lexical information to be organized in a manner which is immediately interpretable by the syntax. These lexical trees, through the formal processes of unification and tree adjunction and the operation of X-bar, yield D-structure. I propose a parametrization of case-assigning ability into the distribution of the features [+ /-NECESSARY] and [+ /-UNIQUE] and use this to derive the Extended Projection Principle (for English) and to account for agreement in Labrador Inuttus. This move forces me to arrive at a new treatment of passive in English, however, as verbs in English have
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