Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: This paper investigates the prepositional nature of non-finite verbal forms.Assuming well-known observations that relate the categories P and V on the one hand (see Chomsky 1970, 1981, Demirdache & Uribe-Etxebarria 2000, Hale & Keyser 2002, and Svenonius 2003, 2007, 2008, among others), and P and C on the other (see den Besten 1983, Emonds 1985, Kayne 2000, and van Riemsdijk 1978) I argue that some non-finite verbs -in particular, past participles and gerunds-incorporate a preposition as a result of the interaction between the categories C and T, which can manifest itself as a species of P in non-finte contexts (see Demirdache &Uribe-Etxebarria 2000, andPesetsky &Torrego 2004).This approach not only explains different syntactic facts concerning non-finite clauses, but also sheds some light on their interpretive intricacies.
Source: Catalan Journal of Linguistics
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.95
Author: Ángel J. Gallego
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Generalitat de Catalunya
Award: G196208344
OpenAlex ID: W1568122852