Case Resistance and cP Movement

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Sang Doh Park
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제32권 제1호, 29~47쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.02.28

영문 초록

That-clauses in English exhibit perplexing syntactic behavior. They appear to lack phi-features associated with Case assignment, as confirmed by the fact that a preposition cannot select a that-clause as its complement. However, a that-clause can function as a clausal subject that agrees in person and number with a verb, and this empirical fact is taken to indicate that that-clauses carry a subset of phi-features. The author proposes that phi-incomplete C bearing uninterpretable person and number features enters into an Agree relation with a that-clause argument, and attracts this clausal element directly to Spec-C. The author also suggests that this operation takes place because the phi-features originating in C cannot be inherited by T unless they constitute a phi-complete set.

목차

1. Introduction

2. The Syntactic Position of a That-Clause as a Subject

3. The Featural Specification of That-Clauses

4. The Origin of Phi-Features and Feature Inheritance

5. Feature Inheritance vs. Feature Raising

6. Three Types of Syntactic Operations for Feature Inheritance

7. Concluding Remarks

키워드

Case resistance cP movement that-clause phi-feature phi-complete feature inheritance