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On Preverbal Positions in Romanian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Virginia Motapanyane
Virginia Motapanyane*
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University of New Brunswick, Saint John
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The concepts of X-bar theory are fundamental to the framework of generative grammar. The last version of the theory (Chomsky 1992) defines the projected positions as either narrowly or broadly L(exically)-related to the head X, where “L-relation” means inclusion in the checking domain of X. Narrowly L-related positions, nonadjoined (e.g., Spec), obey structure preserving rules; they have the basic properties of A-positions. Broadly L-related positions, adjoined and optional, have the properties of A’-positions.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 15 - 36
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1994

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