Workspace, MERGE, and Labeling for Adjuncts

This paper explores various syntactic challenges posed by adjuncts within the latest Chomskyan minimalistic assumptions related to Workspace, MERGE and Labeling. Specifically, we go into empirical and theoretical motivations behind the adjunct conditions such as no contribution to labelling, being opaque for extraction and late insertion à la Freidin-Lebeaux generalization. After presenting an array of recent proposals as for adjuncts, we attempt to put forward our own proposal by employing Uriageraka’s (1999) and Sheehan’s (2013) Multiple Spell-Out in a more dynamic fashion.