In recent transformational grammar, the term " specifier " is not normally used to refer to a type of word or phrase, but rather to a structural position provided by X-bar theory or some derivative thereof.
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Yes, Wikipedia has great articles and the editors have done a fabulous job, but I'm trying to understand X-bar Theory in a little more depth and I'm hoping for suggestions for additional source ( particularly recent ones ).
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As Area Editor he was responsible for the Mathematical Linguistics area of the " Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics ", and his joint work with Geoffrey Pullum, " The X-bar Theory of Phrase Structure " formally reconstructed that then-popular linguistic theory.
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If one chooses a constituency-based grammar, however, then the explanation might draw attention to the distinction between projection levels ( see X-bar theory ) : the remnant must qualify as a maximal projection ( as opposed to an intermediate or minimal projection ).
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:: It's really not a preposition in any traditional sense of the word, or as seen in any form of theoretical linguistics that I'm familiar with ( X-bar theory etc . ) . talk ) 04 : 07, 16 November 2011 ( UTC)
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Note, incidentally, that Loglan and Lojban are not consistent with X-bar theory, so either they are not human languages or X-bar theory does not adequately describe all human languages . ( That leaves open the possibility that it adequately describes all natural lanaguages ) .-- ColinFine 01 : 11, 14 November 2006 ( UTC)
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Note, incidentally, that Loglan and Lojban are not consistent with X-bar theory, so either they are not human languages or X-bar theory does not adequately describe all human languages . ( That leaves open the possibility that it adequately describes all natural lanaguages ) .-- ColinFine 01 : 11, 14 November 2006 ( UTC)
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Further revisions and technical innovations such as introduction of " empty categories ", " X-bar theory ", " D-and S-structures ", and conditions on representations such as " Case filter ", etc . led to the " Revised Extended Standard Theory ", in which the grammatical model was greatly simplified . " Lectures on Government and Binding " contains the next step in Chomskyan linguistic thought where Universal Grammar and the investigation of its characteristics assume central importance.
