Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky’s On phases
Year: 2006
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Claim (1a) is familiar from Chomsky’s earlier work and can in part be traced back to the barrier theory outlined in Chomsky (1986a). Claim (1b) amounts to saying that the φ-features on T and V are inherited from respectively C and v* (the light verb associated with verbs that take an external argument); the fact that T and V do not inherently contain φfeatures is given as a first reason for the claim in (1a) that these heads do not define a phase boundary. Claim (1c), finally, states that A′-movement does not attract the head of an A-chain, as was assumed in earlier proposals, but the foot. If a phase head triggers both Aand A′-movement, these movements proceed in parallel. This is indicated in (2) for the case of Wh-movement of the subject of the clause; recall that T can only attract the subject DP by virtue of inheriting the φ-features of C.
Source: Mouton eBooks
Author: Hans Broekhuis
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1874798517