LIN232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nonfinite Verb, Transitive Verb, Grammatical Case
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Explains vso word order (e. g. , in irish) Subjects are generated in spec position of active voice v head. However, this does not explain why dps that are base generated in spec of active vp have to move to spec of tp: this may be due to epp, but epp can be satisfied by expletive insertion. *it has all the men eaten already: above sentences are not grammatical; raising of subjects to the specifier of tp must be motivated by another constraint. Assumption that dp movement to spec tp is motivated not only by epp but also by the need of subject dp to check case features. Case: abstract syntactic feature of dps that is related to morphological case. Grammatical relations - represents how a dp is functioning in sentence syntactically. 3 important relations: subject, object, indirect object. Not the same as thematic relations, which represent meaning. Morphological case - morphology associated with grammatical relations.
