Argument features, clausal structure and the computation.
Författare
Redaktör
- Eric Reuland
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya
- Giorgos Spathas
Summary, in English
This paper claims that case is vP-internally interpretable and that high NP-movement is driven by (minimally) two other ‘forces’: Person checking in a position higher than Tense, and EPP (Fin) checking in a still higher position, ‘Spec,IP’. This is evidenced by ´low’ nominatives, quirky agreement, Stylistic Fronting and expletive-distribution.
Another central claim of the paper is that grammar interprets event features in relation to speech features. In particular, Person drives NP-movement because it computes event participants (cased θ-roles) in relation to speech participants, much as Tense links event time to speech time. As evidenced by both tense interpretation and pronoun interpretation, the finite clause is a Speech Phrase, SP, containing syntactic speech features.
Another central claim of the paper is that grammar interprets event features in relation to speech features. In particular, Person drives NP-movement because it computes event participants (cased θ-roles) in relation to speech participants, much as Tense links event time to speech time. As evidenced by both tense interpretation and pronoun interpretation, the finite clause is a Speech Phrase, SP, containing syntactic speech features.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
121-158
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Argument Structure
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Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- GRIMM
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978 90 272 3372