Rethinking the Syntax of SPEC-INFL in the Miracle Creed Framework

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Myung-Kwan Park Wooseung Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제35권 제3호, 423~441쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.08.31

국문 초록

This paper investigates the syntax of SPEC-INFL within Chomsky’s (2023) Miracle Creed (MC) framework, guided by Principle T, which demands interpretability at the conceptual-intentional (CI) interface. SPEC-INFL is analyzed as a hybrid position combining clausal and propositional features through phase-internal Internal Merge (IM). The paper addresses three empirical issues: the placement of a subject wh-phrase as predicted by the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis (VMH), (anti-)that-trace effects, and sub-extraction from subjects. It proposes that elements in SPEC-INFL can undergo further IM when they acquire secondary semantic roles, challenging Chomsky’s (2023) ban on it. The analysis integrates mechanisms like feature inheritance and Spec-head agreement for labeling. Anti-locality effects are argued to be interface-based processing constraints rather than syntactic ones, explaining extraction patterns from subjects. Overall, the current study refines the MC framework’s account of SPEC-INFL, offering principled solutions to long-standing syntactic phenomena of elements in SPEC-INFL while preserving core minimalist assumptions about structure-building and interpretability.

목차

1. Introduction

2. The Miracle Creed Framework and SPEC-INFL

3. Empirical Issues on SPEC-INFL

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

Principle T SPEC-INFL VMH that-trace effect sub-extraction from subjects labeling