Variation in English subject extraction: ...
Document type :
Partie d'ouvrage
Title :
Variation in English subject extraction: the case of hyperactive subjects
Author(s) :
Haegeman, Liliane [Auteur]
Danckaert, Lieven [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Danckaert, Lieven [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Scientific editor(s) :
Fuzhen SI
Book title :
Studies on Syntactic Cartography
Publisher :
China Social Sciences Press
Publication place :
Beijing
Publication date :
2017-09
ISBN :
9787520312059
English keyword(s) :
Syntax
Raising
Hyperactivity
Subject extraction
Syntactic cartography
Raising
Hyperactivity
Subject extraction
Syntactic cartography
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
English abstract : [en]
Starting from the well known observation that for some speakers of English, wh-subjects extracted across a transitive predicate can bear accusative case, we investigate the syntax of the pattern in which a subject is ...
Show more >Starting from the well known observation that for some speakers of English, wh-subjects extracted across a transitive predicate can bear accusative case, we investigate the syntax of the pattern in which a subject is wh-moved across a passive predicate. For a minority of speakers, in this second pattern the moved wh-subject can trigger agreement with the predicate in the matrix clause, yielding an apparent case of finite raising which we will call wh-raising. In attempt to offer a unified account of these two structures, we suggest that both are possible in a grammar that allows for DPs to be 'hyperactive' (Carstens 2011) and to take part in A-operations (i.e. syntactic phenomena related to Case and agreement) in more than one clause. The analysis that we propose is couched in the cartographic framework, and adopts the approach to subject extraction from Rizzi (2006) and Rizzi & Shlonsky (2006, 2007).Show less >
Show more >Starting from the well known observation that for some speakers of English, wh-subjects extracted across a transitive predicate can bear accusative case, we investigate the syntax of the pattern in which a subject is wh-moved across a passive predicate. For a minority of speakers, in this second pattern the moved wh-subject can trigger agreement with the predicate in the matrix clause, yielding an apparent case of finite raising which we will call wh-raising. In attempt to offer a unified account of these two structures, we suggest that both are possible in a grammar that allows for DPs to be 'hyperactive' (Carstens 2011) and to take part in A-operations (i.e. syntactic phenomena related to Case and agreement) in more than one clause. The analysis that we propose is couched in the cartographic framework, and adopts the approach to subject extraction from Rizzi (2006) and Rizzi & Shlonsky (2006, 2007).Show less >
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Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
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