http://glottopedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Lexical_array Lexical array - Revision history 2026-11-05T20:55:53Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.6 http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Lexical_array&diff=7907&oldid=prev Wohlgemuth: utrecht 2009-02-16T20:24:08Z <p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Formal device, introduced in Chomsky (1998); a lexical array is the set of lexical items that will be used in a derivation. The notion is similar to [[numeration]]; the only difference is that the elements in a numeration bear indices, while the elements in a lexical array do not. The empirical evidence for the existence of lexical arrays comes from sentences like the following:<br /> <br /> (i) a. There&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt; is likely [&lt;sub&gt;A&lt;/sub&gt; t&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt; to be<br /> [a proof discovered]].<br /> b. * There&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt; is likely [&lt;sub&gt;A&lt;/sub&gt; a proof to be<br /> [ t&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt; discovered]].<br /> <br /> At stage A of the derivation, T&#039;s EPP-feature must be [[check]]ed. This could be done by either merger of &#039;&#039;there&#039;&#039;, or movement of &#039;&#039;a proof&#039;&#039;. Chomsky argues that (b) is ungrammatical because &#039;&#039;a proof&#039;&#039; has been moved before the expletive is inserted, and this violates [[Merge-over-Move]]. &lt;br /&gt; This is indirect evidence for the existence of lexical arrays, because the principle of Merge-over-Move doesn&#039;t make sense if we don&#039;t have a restricted set of accessible elements; if the lexicon would be fully accessible during the derivation, and we have Merge-over-Move, we would expect every sentence to have an expletive satisfying the EPP, since merger of an [[expletive]] is cheaper than moving the subject. &lt;br /&gt; See also [[lexical subarray]].<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Lexical+array&amp;lemmacode=1515 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Chomsky, N. 1998. &#039;&#039;Minimalist inquiries: the framework,&#039;&#039; MIT working papers in linguistics.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Syntax]]</div> Wohlgemuth