Expletive it in the Object Position

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Hang Jin Yoon
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제30호, 63~87쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2002.12.01

영문 초록

In English there appears a nominal expression without any theta role in a sentence. It is called expletive. According to the Projection Principle proposed by Chomsky (1981), no element without theta role can be placed in a strictly subcategorized position. If the expletive it indeed appears in the sister position to V, the Projection Principle cannot be maintained as argued by Postal and Pullum (1988). In this paper, I focus on the generation of the expletive it in relation to the extraposed clause. I make a claim that the expletive it is generated in the SPEC of CP of the extraposed clause when it is thematized and that it moves into the SPEC of v*P of the matrix clause to check off the EPP feature of v* at PF. Since it is not generated in and moved into a theta position, the Projection Principle is not nullified in my proposal.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. General Syntactic Properties of the Expletive

3. Expletive it in the Object Position

4. A Proposal

5. Theoretical Consequences and Summary

References

키워드

Projection Principle the expletive it the extraposed clause thematization the EPP feature of v*