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Subjacency

Subjacency is a general syntactic locality constraint on movement. It specifies restrictions placed on movement and regards it as a strictly local process. This term was first defined by Noam Chomsky in 1973 and constitutes the main concept of the Government and Binding Theory. The revised definition of subjacency from Chomsky (1977) is as follows: "A…

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Subjacency

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Triples12
Avg. degree1.9
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related to The subjacency condition in examples · 11
Subjacency → AGRP Bill, AGRP John, Binding Theory, CP, Extraction, Government, He, John, Ross, The, This
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Subjacency → general syntactic locality constraint on movement

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movement nodes chomsky bounding condition phrase noam position cyclic sentence john government binding time agrp local definition move np ross

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Subjacencyis ageneral syntactic locality constraint on movement0.90text
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesThe0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesJohn0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesRoss0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesHe0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesExtraction0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesThis0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesGovernment0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesBinding Theory0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesAGRP Bill0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesCP0.60section
Subjacencyrelated to The subjacency condition in examplesAGRP John0.60section

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