No Null Nouns - corpora@parles.upf
No Null Nouns - corpora@parles.upf
No Null Nouns - corpora@parles.upf
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Argument 1<br />
The empty noun reduces a hypothesis/claim to<br />
unfalsifiability.<br />
The claim that every XP is the projection of an<br />
X 0 (the projection claim) is a strong claim (a<br />
falsifiable claim) provided an X 0 is always a<br />
word—a lexical item with a phonological<br />
representation and a syntactic/semantic<br />
representation.<br />
If we have evidence that some string of words is<br />
an XP, we predict that it should include a word of<br />
category X in the right position.