LABELS AND RECURSION: FROM ADJUNCTION SYNTAX TO c-ARGUMENT RELATIONS

摘要

I explore the emergence and ontology of syntactic labels. I propose thatlabels are created derivationally as a 'reparation' that circumvents the violationof a legibility condition. As a consequence, I argue that predicate-argumentrelations are derived from a more primitive adjunctive syntax without labels (cf.Hornstein, Nunes & Pietroski (2006), Hinzen (2006)).