Syntax: Advanced Level

[Trance Freak]

C-Command Relationship:

1-Is the linguist called Hagemen, Hagement, or Hageman? (1991)

2-Morphological Case:
Is it Van the Taro, or Van der Taro?

3- The VP- Internal Subject Hypothesis:
It says that the NP initiates in the VP then moves to the Spec Prep° NP ( Trace)
Why does one have to go through D-Structure, then through S-Structure to end up with the initial D-Structure representation, (indicating t, ti, & tj) ?

Regards

[lauralie2]

1-Liliane Haegeman Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (1991:241) on c-command

2-

3-VISH: the assumption there is that the whole VP, not the V, assigns a theta-role to the subject. So, in expletive structures, the subject originates in spec-VP, and in non-expletive structures it moves out of VP to spec-IP:

• There are two people here.
• Two people are here.