Is Transfer strong enough to affect labels?
Miki Obata · 2017
This paper explores how strong the Transfer operation (Chomsky 2004) is. Is it strong enough to eliminate syntactic representations completely from the narrow syntax? Or does Transfer only make transferred domain inaccessible to further operations in the narrow syntax (i.e. weak Transfer)? By considering structure-building of adjuncts, this paper demonstrates that Transfer needs to be weak enough to leave some pieces in the narrow syntax for further application of Merge and the Labeling Algorithm.