Minimalist Program Grammar Implementation

Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) and Jason Ginsberg (Aizu University, Japan)

Binding and Double Object Constructions

DRAFT!!!
Updated: 3/21/2012 (theta roles reported now, added pronoun examples) reported,

Extends earlier implementations (see here) of Chomsky's Derivation by Phase and (see here) of a doubling constituent approach to Binding Theory.

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Example:

Derivation steps:


Summary

Assumptions:
  1. CAUSp and CAUSv are the empty preposition and little v, respectively, as described in Pesetsky (1995).
  2. CAUSp theta-selects CAUSER as its object. However, CAUSp does not license inherent Case on its object (unlike the over causative prepositions).
  3. CAUSv externally theta-selects CAUSER as its subject. As a probe, CAUSv licenses objective Case via Agree.
  4. Last Resort (LR) theta merge intervenes to save a derivation where a DP has outstanding uninterpretable features that will cause a crash.
  5. We permit movement from theta-position to theta-position (without apparent violation of the Theta Criterion) only when the two theta-roles associated with the distinct theta-positions are non-distinct.

Last modified: Wed Mar 21 14:20:54 CST 2012