UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 11 (1999)

The configurational matrix

AD NEELEMAN & HANS VAN DE KOOT



In this paper we explore what primitives of syntax may explain why grammatical relations are obligatory, unique, local and sensitive to c-command. We propose that these properties follow from the way information percolates in syntactic trees (as regulated by compositionality) and the way information in nodes is organized (as regulated by set theory).


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