Exclusion

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Exclusion is a structural/configurational relation. An element a is excluded by a category b iff no segment of b dominates a (Chomsky 1986b).

Example

in (i) d is excluded by b, but a and g are not. See Dominance. 

	(i) [e d [b a [b ...g...]]]

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

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