Sisterhood condition

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Definition

The Sisterhood condition is a condition on theta-role assignment which requires the theta-marker and the target of theta-marking to be sisters. This condition is proposed in Chomsky (1986b).

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Chomsky, N. 1986b. Barriers, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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