In this paper, I will show that an account based on the idea of Phrasal Spell-out can elegantly account for some puzzles regarding VN compounds in Romance languages, interpreted here as 'lexicalized modifying clauses'. I will advance the hypothesis of a rebooting mechanism in extended projections as an alternative to the postulation of silent items to account for the ambiguous nature of VN words that can appear either as noun or adjectives/adverbials. With such an approach no compounding rules are involved and we do not need to resort to categorial underpecification to account for the ‘VN facts’.
VN compounds in Italian and some other Romance languages, phrasal spell-out and rebooting / Ludovico Franco. - In: RGG. RIVISTA DI GRAMMATICA GENERATIVA. - ISSN 1122-4428. - STAMPA. - 37:(2015), pp. 81-98.
VN compounds in Italian and some other Romance languages, phrasal spell-out and rebooting
Ludovico Franco
2015
Abstract
In this paper, I will show that an account based on the idea of Phrasal Spell-out can elegantly account for some puzzles regarding VN compounds in Romance languages, interpreted here as 'lexicalized modifying clauses'. I will advance the hypothesis of a rebooting mechanism in extended projections as an alternative to the postulation of silent items to account for the ambiguous nature of VN words that can appear either as noun or adjectives/adverbials. With such an approach no compounding rules are involved and we do not need to resort to categorial underpecification to account for the ‘VN facts’.
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