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The Nominative Puzzle and the Low Nominative Hypothesis

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Under the view of nominative Case taken by Chomsky (2000, 2001), one would expect nominative to be the marked or complex Case, being merged after accusative. In fact, however, it is the other way around, nominative preconditioning accusative and also being the Case of simple

structures (unaccusative, etc.). The article argues that this Nominative Puzzle is not real, the nominative argument in fact being the first argument merged, raised across the accusative later in the derivation for independent reasons. This approach not only accounts for the dependency

correlation between accusative and nominative (Burzio’s

Generalization), but also offers a derivational account of Condition A correlations (anaphors being merged higher than their ‘‘antecedents’’). Importantly, it also makes it possible to explain Icelandic quirky constructions

in terms of a general matching theory. In addition, the article develops a novel approach to Move as applying for the purpose of successful feature matching.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

289-308

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Linguistic Inquiry

Volym

37

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

MIT Press

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Nyckelord

  • quirky Case
  • Move
  • Condition A
  • structural Case
  • Burzio’s Generalization
  • intervention

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • GRIMM

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1530-9150