The book proposes a theory of phrase structure in which structures
are built by a simple adjunction operation, and specifiers are
solely characterised by agreement. Having introduced some of the
basic notions of the principle-and-parameters theory in Chapter 1,
Chapter 2 discusses and illustrates the fundamental difference
between lexical and functional categories: Lexical categories have
Lexical Conceptual Structure in the sense of Hale and Keyser
(1986), whereas functional categories lack such intrinsic semantic
property. Instead, functional categories possess agreement features
which connect two distinct syntactic categories. Based on this
fundamental difference, a new system of projection called the
relativized X-bar theory is introduced. Chapter 3 explores various
consequences of the projection system introduced in Chapter 2. In
Chapter 4, the discussion focuses on the phrase structural
properties of Japanese.
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