Towards Set-Theoretic Constituency Representations
Andrew Carnie · 2007
Abstract X-bar theory has had significant and fruitful empirical consequences for our understanding of constituency. Indeed, to this day, the vast majority of articles published in major syntax journals still use some form of X-bar theory to express constituency relations. However, X-bar theory also has several not-insignificant negative consequences. Within the Principles and Parameters framework, the empirical problems discussed below paired with the programmatic Minimalist theory-attenuation has led to a derived notion of X-bar structure.