By Lisa A. Reed
ISBN-10: 1614510423
ISBN-13: 9781614510420
Generative thought has lengthy sought to trap the syntax of keep an eye on, wondering even if the supplement clause includes a syntactically projected thematic topic, no matter if such a controversy undergoes displacement and, if that is so, the place and why, and what position semantics could play. This ebook keeps during this culture, significantly analyzing paradigms erroneously assumed to desire seasoned analyses over stream and implicit argument debts. It deals novel information amenable to research in simple terms inside a professional procedure - yet one extensively diverse from its predecessors in shape and interpretation.
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Following earlier work in Chomsky (1976: 331), Chomsky & Lasnik (1977: 432–433) assume that the [NP e] in Control structures like (44b) above is simply an NP associated neither with lexical material nor, they add, a referential index. Crucially, and in contrast to Jackendoff (1969), they assume that the very same type of unexpanded NP is found in the Deep Structure subject position of a passive sentence like (47a), which Chomsky & Lasnik associate with the Deep Structure in (47b): (47) a. Bill was hit.
I persuaded Mary [ S 0 [ S PRO to stay]]. Turning to the role of Case in this system, Chomsky (1981a, 1982) incorporates from Chomsky (1980) Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s Case Filter, formulated now as in (96). As before, this filter applies at PF, and only to NPs that are phonetically overt. In other words, PRO and trace “escape” its effects, although, also as before, nothing precludes PRO from being associated with Case if the appropriate set of circumstances should arise, a fact to which we will return at the end of this section.
9 See Chomsky (1980: 25) for the formal definition of government employed at that time. Approaches to Control in Transformational Grammar (1957–1981) 35 Turning to the “Rules of Control” in this theory, Chomsky (1980: 33) assumes that in the unmarked case, verbs selecting infinitival complement clauses are lexically associated with the feature [+Control], with Rosenbaum’s MDP now determining, for the most part, which NP will ultimately be selected as PRO’s antecedent. g. the verb promise, in which the MDP is not respected.
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