Recently, Chomsky (2013, 2015) has abandoned the concept of the endocentricity of phrase, which has been taken as a near axiom in the tradition of phrase structure theory. Instead, he proposes an algorithm for labelling (LA; labelling algorithm) by taking it away from the Merge operation. This, in effect, is a measure for solving the so-called specifier problem a la Adger 2012, and then enable novel explanation of the non-existence of specifiers. Paradoxically, we will see in this paper that Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) effective elimination of specifiers not only renders the configuration of multiple specifiers possible, but also helps us to try simpler explanation of them.

1. 들머리
2. 구 구조 규칙에서 소체 구 구조 이론까지
3. 표찰 알고리듬
    3.1. 지정어 문제
    3.2. 표찰 알고리듬의 개정과 지정어의 제거
4. 표찰 알고리듬 하에서의 겹지정어 구조 분석
    4.1. Richards의 자질 순환성과 끼워넣기
    4.2. 김동석ㆍ김용하의 반-상위 범주 조건
5. 맺음말
참고문헌

• 김용하(안동대학교) | Yong-Ha Kim