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The development of X-bar theory and the subsequent elimination of phrase structure rules from the base component of the grammar came about as a direct result of investigations of properties of lexical items. As discoveries were made about lexical properties, information formerly thought to be explicitly stated in the syntactic component was found to be redundant with lexical information.
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Kitagawa (1986) proposes a similar system in which the features are [± maximal] and [± minimal).
See Chametzky (1987) for arguments that the relationship between the lexical head and the word is not one of domination.
See Faraci (1974), Jones (1985), Andrews (1982) and Browning (1987) for detailed discussion of the two different classes of adjuncts.
Lumsden (1987) has also argued on somewhat different grounds that this relation does not belong in the inventory.
See Abney (1987) for extensive arguments that DET is a functional head.
See Speas (1989a) for details on how this account extends to cover all of the relevant island effects.
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Speas, M. (1990). Syntactic Projection and Licensing. In: Phrase Structure in Natural Language. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2045-3_2
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