Rigid Edges in Syntax - Evidence from vP and VP

• 영문명: Rigid Edges in Syntax
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Heejeong Ko(고희정)
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제17권 제4호, 435~456쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.11.30

영문 초록

  This paper investigates an ordering restriction imposed on syntactic edges, with special attention to constraints on scrambling in Korean and Japanese. The paper shows that elements externally merged on the edge of a Spell-out domain cannot scramble over their domain-mates. This generalization captures the distribution of the subject, the object, and their floating numeral quantifiers in constructions with scrambling. The paper argues that the ordering restrictions in scrambling are instantiations of the Edge Generalization - a property predicted from cyclic linearization (Fox and Pesetsky 2005) and a probe-goal search in movement (Chomsky 2001). The paper provides evidence for the claim that so-called weak phases (VPs) must undergo cyclic Spell-out, just as strong phases (vPs and CP). It also supports the claim that scrambling is triggered by a probe-goal search, just like other types of feature-driven movement.

목차

1. Introduction
2. Initial Puzzles
3. Proposal: Edge Generalization
4. Analysis: subject scrambling vs. object scrambling
5. Further Predictions: the scope of "again"
6. Implications: double object constructions
7. Conclusions
References

키워드

Edges Edge Generalization Cyclic Linearization Spell-out Phases