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dc.contributor.authorSvenonius, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-08T10:58:09Z
dc.date.available2023-05-08T10:58:09Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractSyntactic features are formal properties of syntactic objects which determine how they behave with respect to syntactic constraints and operations (such as selection, licensing, agreement, and movement). Syntactic features can be contrasted with properties which are purely phonological, morphological or semantic, but many features are relevant both to syntax and morphology, or to syntax and semantics, or to all three components. The formal theory of syntactic features builds on the theory of phonological features, and normally takes morphosyntactic features (those expressed in morphology) to be the central case, with other, possibly more abstract features being modeled on the morphosyntactic ones. Many aspects of the formal nature of syntactic features are currently unresolved. Some traditions (such as HPSG) make use of rich feature structures as an analytic tool, while others (such as Minimalism) pursue simplicity in feature structures in the interest of descriptive restrictiveness. Nevertheless, features are essential to all explicit analyses.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSvenonius P: Syntactic Features. In: Aronoff M. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2017. Oxford University Pressen_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1695121
dc.identifier.isbn9780199384655
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29161
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleSyntactic Featuresen_US
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