Abstract:Hypothesizing that every syntactic object reaching the interfaces must be labeled, Chomsky (2013Chomsky ( , 2015 introduce an independent label-identifying operation, Labeling Algorithm (LA). This newly proposed LA, which is an instance of Minimal Search, is assumed to search for not only the categorial feature of heads but also any agreeing features shared by two heads to determine the label of a given syntactic object. This paper argues, however, that postulation of the latter type of search by LA (i.e., loc… Show more
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