Two Quirks of Structure: Non-Projecting Heads and the Mirror Image Principle.

Travis, Lisa Demena

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ERIC Number: EJ467116

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Publication Date: 1992

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Two Quirks of Structure: Non-Projecting Heads and the Mirror Image Principle.

Travis, Lisa Demena

Journal of Linguistics, v28 n2 p469-84 Sep 1992

Margaret Speas'"Phrase Structure in Natural Language" is reviewed. It presents three recent innovations in phrase structure research that offer new tools to explain data and solve old problems: the VP-internal subject hypothesis, the layered VP hypothesis, and the articulated IP hypothesis. (Contains 19 references.) (LB)

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Verbs

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Language: English

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