ON SYMMETRIC ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR[Symmetry in Syntax : Merge, Move, and Labels, by Barbara Citko]

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<p>Contrary to the traditionally accepted view that asymmetric relations are the core relations of the language faculty (Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2008), Kayne (1994), Moro (2000), Di Sciullo (2002, 2005)), Citko’s <i>Symmetry in Syntax: Merge, Move, and Labels</i> investigates three fundamental syntactic mechanisms, i.e. Merge, Move, and Labeling, arguing that all three can also be symmetric under well-defined circumstances. After providing an overview of each chapter of the book, this article explicates puzzling dual selections in CP layers of Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, and presents a way of accommodating them under Citko’s theory of symmetric labeling.</p>

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