Open AccessConstraining (shifting) types at the interface
Author(s) -
E. G. C. Poole
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.493
Subject(s) - computer science , type (biology) , movement (music) , interface (matter) , range (aeronautics) , semantic property , natural (archaeology) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , physics , geology , engineering , aerospace engineering , paleontology , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , acoustics
This paper argues that traces only range over individual semantic types and cannot betype shifted into higher types to circumvent this restriction. The evidence comes from movementtargeting positions where DPs must denote properties and the behavior of definite descriptionsin these positions. These constraints on possible traces demonstrate that syntactic operationsimpose active restrictions on permissible semantic types in natural language.Keywords: semantic types, traces, movement, reconstruction, type shifting, properties.