On Expletive It: A Minimalist Account

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Hwichan Oh
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제23권 제2호, 243~264쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.05.31

영문 초록

This paper argues that the syntactic behavior of expletive it can be accounted for, in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), especially by the operation Copy and Merge. I adopt Hazout's (2004) theory about the generation of expletives and Nunes's (2001) minimalist technique, so called sideward movement. Focusing on expletive it in the psych verb construction, I show how to explain the occurrence of expletive it in the θ-marked position. I also discuss agreement and numeration issues in the Minimalist framework with respect to expletive it.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Previous Studies

3. Proposal

4. Consequences

5. Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

expletives sideward movement small clauses psych verbs