On Labeling There

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 김동석(Dongseok Kim) 이재철(Jaecheol Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제52호, 23~38쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.01

영문 초록

Chomsky (1995, 1998, 1999, 2001) consistently argues that the expletive there as an EPP checker merges in [Spec,T]. From the perspective of the labeling (Chomsky 2005, 2006, Cecchetto and Donati 2007), this opens a possibility for a lexical item to become a label. This paper argues against External Merge of there in [Spec,T], on the ground that it inevitably yields mislabeling at the point of the derivation where it merges in [Spec,T] as a head (i.e., the whole sentence is interpreted as DP, not TP). Three alternatives will be presented that there is base-generated below T: as the head D, the SC predicate, and the [Spec, weak vP]. This squib claims that External Merge of there to the spec of a weak vP is most persuasive for the labeling algorithm.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Labeling Algorithms

3. Internal Merge of there to [Spec,T]

4. Concluding Remarks

키워드

label there Internal Merge External Merge probe