On the Notion of Feature Inheritance
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Chomsky (2008) has claimed that according to the phase theory a phase head should be the locus of all the relevant syntactic features so that the feature inheritance has to apply to every phase head. Hence, features that should be checked on a non-phase head should be inherited from a phase head to the non-phase head for syntactic operations like movement. Recently it is further claimed that not only Agree feature but also all the relevant features including even discourse features like Topic/Focus should be posited in C and then have to be inherited to T (Miyagawa 2010). In this paper, however, it is shown that the operation of canonical feature inheritance should be highly restricted: it may not apply to unmarked IMs or optional movements, it may apply only to “checkable” features, it may apply only to non-phase heads selected by the phase head, etc. Furthermore, it is shown that the notion of feature inheritance entails many problems including some technical problems like counter-cyclic operation, so that the alternative theory of movement without the notion of feature inheritance or even feature checking itself,i.e., the merge theory of movement, is proposed and discussed.
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Chomsky (2008) has claimed that according to the phase theory a phase head should be the locus of all the relevant syntactic features so that the feature inheritance has to apply to every phase head. Hence, features that should be checked on a non-phase head should be inherited from a phase head to the non-phase head for syntactic operations like movement. Recently it is further claimed that not only Agree feature but also all the relevant features including even discourse features like Topic/Focus should be posited in C and then have to be inherited to T (Miyagawa 2010). In this paper, however, it is shown that the operation of canonical feature inheritance should be highly restricted: it may not apply to unmarked IMs or optional movements, it may apply only to “checkable” features, it may apply only to non-phase heads selected by the phase head, etc. Furthermore, it is shown that the notion of feature inheritance entails many problems including some technical problems like counter-cyclic operation, so that the alternative theory of movement without the notion of feature inheritance or even feature checking itself,i.e., the merge theory of movement, is proposed and discussed.
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