26.561, Books: (Re)labeling: Cecchetto, Donati

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:22:34
From: David Weininger [dgw at mit.edu]
Subject: (Re)labeling: Cecchetto, Donati

 


Title: (Re)labeling 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/relabeling 


Author: Carlo Cecchetto
Author: Caterina Donati

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262028721 Pages: 204 Price: U.S. $ 66
Paperback: ISBN:  9780262527217 Pages: 204 Price: U.S. $ 33


Abstract:

When two categories merge and a new syntactic object is formed, what
determines which of the two merged categories transmits its properties one
level up—or, in current terminology, which of the two initial categories
labels the new object? In (Re)labeling, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati
take this question as the starting point of an investigation that sheds light
on longstanding puzzles in the theory of syntax in the generative tradition.
They put forward a simple idea: that words are special because they can
provide a label for free when they merge with some other category. Crucially,
this happens even when a word merges with another category as a result of
syntactic movement. This means that a word has a “relabeling” power in that
the structure resulting from its movement can have a different label from the
one that the structure previously had. Cecchetto and Donati argue that
relabeling cases triggered by the movement of a word are pervasive in the
syntax of natural languages and that their identification sheds light on such
phenomena as relativization, explaining for free why relatives clauses have a
nominal distribution, successive cyclicity, island effects, root phenomena,
and Minimality effects.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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