By Acrisio Pires
ISBN-10: 9027233624
ISBN-13: 9789027233622
This e-book unifies the research of definite non-finite domain names, concentrating on topic licensing, contract, and Case and regulate. It proposes a minimalist research of English gerunds which permits just a null topic seasoned (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical topic (gerunds as enhances of notion verbs), or either kinds of topics (clausal gerunds). It then analyzes Portuguese infinitives, exhibiting that the morphosyntactic houses of non-inflected and inflected infinitives correlate with precise remedies of compulsory and elective regulate. It explores those and different phenomena to teach that annoying and occasion binding don't correlate with the distinction among regulate and raising/exceptional case marking (ECM), opposed to null Case theories of regulate. A Probe-Goal method of Case and contract is followed together with a circulate research of keep watch over. The ebook then investigates diachronic morphosyntactic phenomena related to infinitives, verb flow and cliticization in Portuguese, exploring a cue-based thought of syntactic swap grounded in language acquisition.
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B. John thinks that it is believed that PRO shaving himself is important. c. Clinton’s campaign believes that PRO keeping his sex life under control is necessary for electoral success. d. John thinks that PRO getting his resume in order is crucial and Bill does too. (= Bill thinks that John getting his resume in order is crucial, strict reading). e. Johnj told Maryk that PROj+k washing themselves/each other would be fun. f. The unfortunate believes that PRO getting a medal would be boring. g. Only George Bush remembers that PRO winning the Second World War was crucial.
The manager preferred [Mary being considered for the position in the downtown office]. ii. CGs need to satisfy a Case requirement (as argued in detail in section 2): (44) a. b. c. d. e. iii. * It is expected [John reading the book]. (cf. (44d-e)) * John is preferred reading the book. * John is impossible reading the book. [John reading the book] was preferred. I prefer [John reading the book]. g. Chomsky 1981, 1986, Postal 1974 and references therein): (45) a. Mary believes [ Paul to be smart].
1 for evidence that CGs are not ECM/Exceptional Case marking complements). One final point is that given the analysis of CGs as projecting a [+tense] Tense Phrase, one might expect them to project a CP as well. However, two important pieces of evidence indicate that there is no CP projection available in CGs. First, they do not allow the occurrence of complementizers, as in (20b) and (21b), differently from to-infinitive clauses (20a) and from finite clauses (21a) (see Stowell 1982): (20) a. b.
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