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Phrase structure and directionality in Irish1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Thomas Ernst
Thomas Ernst
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Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Science,University of Delaware46 E. Delaware Avenue, Newark,Delaware, 19716, USA
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In recent years the study of phrase structure has largely become a search for principles, parameters and other mechanisms to replace phrase-structure rules of the traditional sort. For capturing word order, one of the most common devices is the directionality parameter, especially the one which specifies a language as head-final or head-initial. It has also been proposed that languages may be specified for the direction of government (Stowell, 1981), or direction of Case- and theta-role assignment (Koopman, 1983; Travis, 1984). Often, such proposals focus only on the lowest (X′) level of phrase structure, that is to say the ordering of complements with relation to a head, but there have also been suggestions for directionality of specifiers or adjuncts (as in Ernst, 1989; Georgopoulos, 1991).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , September 1992 , pp. 415 - 443
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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