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C‐SELECTION AS FEATURE‐CHECKING *
Author(s) -
Sveius Peter
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1994.tb00853.x
Subject(s) - subcategorization , head (geology) , grammar , computer science , feature (linguistics) , adjunct , selection (genetic algorithm) , natural language processing , relation (database) , artificial intelligence , complement (music) , linguistics , philosophy , verb , data mining , biochemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype , chemistry , geomorphology , geology
Abstract. Subcategorization (Chomsky 1965), or e‐selection (Pesetsky's 1982 term), is a relation which allows a head to specify certain feature values on its complement. However, the limitations of subcategorization are identical to the limitations of head‐movement; the relation is strictly between a head and the head(s) that it properly governs, and never between a head and a specifier or adjunct. The grammar can therefore be simplified by collapsing the two head‐head relations, either by treating cases of abstract head movement (and concomitant feature‐checking) as subcategorization or by treating cases of subcategorization as head movement. In this paper I outline a proposal of the latter sort.