Argument PP, Agree and Incorporation

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Kyu min Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제27권 제2호, 309~326쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.05.31

영문 초록

The Morphological Visibility Condition (MVC) (Baker 1996) requires incorporation to co-occur with agreement in order to render a phrase visible for theta role assignment. However, what is missing in the MVC is an account of why incorporation and agreement should co-occur. By recasting the relation between incorporation and agreement in current minimalist terms (Chomsky 2000, 2001), this paper shows that incorporation can be understood as a consequence of Agree. Thus, under the proposed view, incorporation is predicted to occur upon Agree. Building on the Blackfoot (Algonquian) facts, I argue that p head of an argument PP enters Agree resulting p incorporation to the verb. By motivating a language specific feature [m(ental state)], a p head appears incorporated to the verb as a result of [m]-Agree. Thus, the proposed analysis supports the recent view that incorporation belongs in narrow syntax (Roberts 2010).

목차

1. Introduction

2. Baker’s MVC and distribution of PPs

3. PPs in Blackfoot and a problem for the MVC

4. Argument p/P incorporation via [m]-Agree

5. Conclusion

References

키워드

PP pP Agree incorporation argument sentient