[Lexicog] Re: Deriving verbs and lexicography

[Mike Maxwell]

rtroike at email.arizona.edu wrote:

> But the essence of the GB model incorporating X-bar theory
> was that the lexical items chosen projected their category label/feature in
> a binary tree to a maximal XP level. Now this has disappeared as a mechanism
> and been replaced by arboreal structures generated by merging heads and
> creating spec positions to check off features (eliminating semantically
> uninterpretable ones like Case).
	
I've heard those rumblings.  But I wonder whether one could question how 
different this really is, at an observational level or at an explanatory 
level.  I'm sure the HPSG folks have looked at that--and I also suspect 
the Minimalist folks haven't (after all, that would be questioning 
progress).  Answering the "is it really different" question can be tricky.

But I'm betraying my bias (and the fact that I haven't kept up with 
syntax for the last ten or fifteen years).
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


 
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