Difference between revisions of "Blocking Category"

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Latest revision as of 13:49, 28 March 2008

G is a Blocking Category for i iff g is not L-marked and g dominates i.

Comment

The concept of a Blocking Category plays a role in the definition of barrierhood, introduced in Chomsky (1986b).

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Reference

Chomsky, Noam A. 1986b. Barriers. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.