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What’s in Universal Grammar? On participles and the inventory of grammatical primitives
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonOne of the goals of syntactic theory is to account for the distributional properties of grammatical units. My central question is whether the lexical categori(zer)s like n(oun), v(erb), and a(adjective), which are partially responsible for determining distribution, are associated with any intrinsic semantic content. I examine this question through the lens of participles. Based on […]