SHARED LABELS AND PARTIAL LABELING

Symmetry, Shared Labels and Movement in Syntax, ed. by Andreas Blümel, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2017, x+166pp.

Abstract

This article starts with a review of Blümel (2017), which addresses the question of successive cyclicity, attributing it to a labeling failure in which the set of two maximal projections is unlabelable. Blümel also shows that an item stops moving when it shares the same type of feature with another item. His analysis is attractive but faces some challenges when we observe infinitival constructions and there constructions. I then propose a mechanism of partial labeling under which each feature consisting of φ-features is entitled to be a label. I also show that partial labeling is observed in past participle agreement in Romance languages and in double object constructions.