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Luo: from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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'''Adjacency''' refers to two elements that are next to each other in the surface string without any intervening material. This notion is relevant to [[Case assignment]].

===Example===
(i) ''John wrote a letter yesterday.''

(ii) ''*John wrote yesterday a letter.''

The [[NP]] ''a letter'' must be adjacent to its Case assigner ''wrote'', as in (i). If any material intervenes, as in (ii), the adjacency requirement on [[case assignment]] is not met, hence the [[NP]] cannot be assigned case so that it violates the case filter, and the sentence is ungrammatical.

===Comment===
One distinguishes string adjacency from structure adjacency depending on whether the relation 'next to each other' applies to a string or to structure.

===Link===
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Adjacency&lemmacode=985 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

===References===
{{: Chomsky 1981}}

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