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Nominal inflection and the nature of functional categories1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Andrew Spencer
Andrew Spencer
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Department of Language and Linguistics, University of EssexColchester CO4 3SQ, UK
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There is a widespread assumption within the Government–Binding theory as it has developed from the Barriers model (Chomsky 1986) that functional categories, that is, categories which play a role in establishing dependencies between parts of a sentence, as opposed to lexical categories, should be represented as heads projecting X-bar phrases. I shall refer to this as the Full Functional Projection Hypothesis (FFPH), stated informally in (1). (i) Full Functional Projection Hypothesis Any morphophonosyntactic formative which corresponds to a functional category in a given language is syntactically the head of a maximal projection.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , September 1992 , pp. 313 - 341
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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