Some Issues on Expletive Constructions

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Hye Kyoung Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제27호, 123~145쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2002.03.01

영문 초록

In this paper, we will attempt to provide an alternative to Chomsky’s (2000, 2001) Agree-based analysis of expletive there and it constructions. One of the main claims is that without recourse to Chomsky’s (1995, 2000, 2001) economy condition that employs the “Merge over Move” preference, expletive there and it constructions can be uniformly accounted for; that is, expletive there overtly raises from the Spec position of DP (see Waller 1997), and expletive it raises from the Spec position of CP to satisfy feature checking (see Stroik 1996). In addition, we will show that the exceptional checking of the EPP feature by direct merger of the expletive with TP can be excluded under the analysis proposed here.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Basic Issues

3. An Alternative Analysis

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

expletive probe goal EPP feature “Merge over Move” preference