ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the form and empirical consequences of a deduction of cyclic transfer. It elucidates the empirical problem with the valuation-induced approach, thus setting the stage for our alternative deduction of cyclic transfer. Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely provide a potential solution to the empirical problem of the valuation-induced transfer system. According to the law of conservation of features (LCF), the nature of a feature cannot be changed during the course of a derivation. LCF thus expresses the generalization that syntactic feature valuation never creates semantically interpretable features anew. The extended projection principle (EPP) is a derived property, emerging only with feature-inheritance. Chomsky postulates that the complement domain of the phase-head v is not accessible to operations outside of the phase v P. The English-Icelandic parameter is reduced to independent morpho-lexical case-variant properties of heads.
