This critical review examines Bode's analysis of syntax and labeling in linguistics, suggesting important implications for understanding language structure.
This article is a critical review of Bode's (2020) recent work on linguistic minimalism, according to which UG constitutes the structure-building operation Simplest Merge (Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely (2015, 2017)).Bode argues that the islandhood of adjuncts is a function of the way a confl ict in "labeling" the set of two non-heads, i.e. {XP, YP}, resolves (Chomsky (2013(Chomsky ( , 2015))).The key proposal is her equation of labeling with "Transfer" (Chomsky (2004(Chomsky ( , 2008))).I scrutinize the workings of Simplest Merge and labeling/Transfer, taking up several contingent theoretical and empirical issues.I conclude that despite the challenges, Bode's general conception of UG is one to be pursued further.
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