By Peter Svenonius
This choice of formerly unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's prolonged Projection precept and its dating to matters and expletives (works like "it" that stand for different words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that every clause should have an issue, those articles symbolize the present nation of the talk, rather with appreciate to the theory's common applicability throughout languages. proposing a global and hugely revered workforce of individuals, the quantity explores those questions in quite a few languages, together with Italian, Finnish, Icelandic, and Hungarian.
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Is grammatical, although the gender and number of the chain are spelled out both by the postverbal subject clitic and by the the determiner la heading the prenominal subject (according to the DP-hypothesis), the general principle invoked in the text must be refined. Perhaps it is relevant that the gender and number features of D are checked by those of an N in la copine de Jean. ) and Kayne (1994) mentioned in note 10 might account for (24)-(25) vs (20)-(26) by assuming, as suggested by Cardinaletti (1996) and Manzini and Savoia (1998), that there are different (preverbal) subject positions specialized for different types of subject: ['strong' subject X ['weak' subject pronoun Y [ / .
4) that the agreement features of the V must be checked against the features of a functional head to which V adjoins, plus the fact that if the XP containing the V raises to SpecIP, V cannot adjoin to I (or F). be proceeded to a reexamination of the question? case The distribution of impersonal sentences without expletive il, like the embedded clause in (35), is subject to the same limitations as are sentences with Stylistic Inversion (cf. Kayne and Pollock 1978). Our analysis of Stylistic Inversion should therefore extend to (35), but (35) seems to lack both a (visible) subject DP that could raise to SpecFP, and a trace of that subject in SpecXP that would license the number feature of I after raising of XP to SpecIP.
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