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Movement in the passive nominal and nominal morphology.
- Source :
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Linguistic Review . 2013, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p467-490. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This article argues for the presumption that syntactic movement is involved inside the passive nominal (Anderson 1977, 1979, Chomsky 1970, 1981, 1986, Kayne 1984). I argue that pace Grimshaw (1990) and Williams (1982), there are some facts that follow only by assuming that the prenominal genitive DP originates from a noun's object position. Furthermore, basing my argument on Grimshaw's (2004) claim that Romance/Latinate suffixes license N's complements, whereas their Germanic counterparts cannot, I demonstrate that this dichotomy is observed in the formation of passive nominals as well. This in turn offers the basis for the movement of N's complements to the DP-initial position. The present study will thus reinforce the parallelism that has been purported in the generative literature to exist between the sentence and the noun phrase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01676318
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Linguistic Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 90365314
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2013-0014