Why movement comes for free once you have adjunction
Why movement comes for free once you have adjunction
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DOI:
10.1075/la.34.04mar
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Thomas Graf
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作者:
Thomas Graf
It is fairly well understood that noun phrases (or DPs) occupy argument positions in sentences (or bear grammatical relations or functions) by virtue of the semantic roles they bear with respect to predicates. Current Principles and Parameters theories, following Chomsky (1981), add an additional condition on licensing NP (DP) arguments: they must also be assigned (abstract) Case. Recent investigations of languages with rich morphological case and agreement systems strongly indicate that the relationship between abstract Case and morphological case and agreement is indirect, at best. In this paper, I argue that the proper treatment of morphological case necessitates a complete break between abstract Case and morphological case. I show that the facts covered by “Burzio’s generalization”(Burzio 1986) split into two sets explained by independently motivated principles. One set is covered by the “Extended Projection Principle”(see, eg, Chomsky 1986: 4), in particular the requirement that sentences have subjects. The remainder is handled by the correct universal characterization of “accusative” and “ergative” morphological case, a characterization that also successfully explains a peculiar fact about the distribution of ergative case. Giving content to the theory of morphological case allows for the elimination of abstract Case theory from the theory of syntax. The mapping between semantic roles and argument positions, augmented by the subject requirement of the Extended Projection Principle, is suffi cient to license NPs in argument positions.
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发表时间:
2019
期刊:
FG 2019
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作者:
De Santo, Aniello;Graf, Thomas
通讯作者:
Graf, Thomas