A Note on the Defective T and Merge of There

• 영문명: A Note on the Defective T and Merge of There
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Sung-Hyuk Park
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학(TAEGU REVIEW) 제73호, 195~213쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.12.01

영문 초록

In Chomsky's (1995, 2000) minimalist theory, θ-theory and movement theory are assumed to have complementary nature. This means that the operation Merge of Chomsky (2000) may not induce agreement, or feature checking in the sense of Chomsky (1995); agreement is induced only by the operation Agree. In English, however, there seem to be some cases where checking domains (Chomsky 1995) may be established by "pure" (external) Merge In these cases, such non-arguments as whether, if, and there remain in their "base" positions, in which they are externally merged, but feature checking, i e, uninterpretable feature deletion, occurs anyway. In this short note, we suggest that in this situation, agreement, i e, feature deletion, may be induced by external Merge, In particular, external Merge of the expletive there in the Spec of T, whether T is full or defective, may induce agreement and hence lead directly to the checking of the nonsemantic selectional feature [uper]^ of T.

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