L-feature

From Glottopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

L-feature is feature of a lexical item which is involved in feature checking.

Example

the functional heads T(ense) and AGR(eement) incorporate features of the verb (V-features) which serve to check the morphological features of the verb.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Chomsky, N. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory, MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67. Reprinted in: Chomsky (1995).