PRO and subject of NP

Williams, Edwin

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“…However, as been pointed out by Williams (1985) and Lasnik (1988), control into purpose/rationale clauses is also seen in contexts where either there is no passivized verb in the matrix clause (26a) (from Williams 1985), or where the controller is not the same as the demoted external argument as in (26b) (Lasnik 1988 fans.def 'During the performance/performing of one of Dylan's/his/the artist's greatest hits, the fans booed.' Dylan might very well be the performer in the example above.…”

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Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles

Lundquist

2011

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This article discusses the absence of reflexive or self-caused readings in certain types of participles and de-verbal nominalizations, like the hanging of the suicidal patient and The suicidal patient was hanged yesterday. I argue that the "anti-reflexive" reading is not triggered by the presence of a subject PRO or pro, but rather by the absence of reflexive marking, i.e. overt marking that functions to recode lexically specified co-reference relations between the arguments of a predicate. I argue that the verb-phrase needs to be decomposed into at least two subparts/subevents and that each sub-event carries information about the participants involved in it (as in e.g. Pustejovsky 1995 and Ramchand 2008b). More specifically, arguments receive their thematic information from indices on verbal heads that introduces sub-events. Event-denoting nominalizations and participles in general inherit the event structure from the verb, i.e. the indices present in the verbal roots. I further argue that simple reflexives can be verbal heads, that are inserted as a last resort when there is a mismatch between the lexically stored information of a verb and the structure generated in the syntax. This article focuses on data from Swedish, but comparisons will be made with English.

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Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles

Lundquist

2011

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“…This contrast might be accounted for by postulating a PRO in the subject of the NPs in the (b) sentences along the lines suggested by Chomsky (1986b). (See also Higginbotham 1983and Williams 1985 If the correct account is along these lines, (19a) would have a Condition C violation (in the moved position) irrespective of whether or not reconstruction takes place. This confound is overcome in (20) and (22) We can also demonstrate that the unacceptability of the (a) cases is related to Condition C by comparing these sentences with (22a-c).…”

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Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains

1999

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This article investigates interactions between the scope of QPs and the restrictions imposed by binding theory. It presents new evidence that Condition C applies at (and only at) LF and demonstrates that this condition can serve as a powerful tool for distinguishing among various claims regardingthe nature of LF and the inventoryof semantic mechanisms. The conclusionsreached are these: (1) Scope reconstruction is represented in the syntax (semantic type-shifting operations are very limited). (2) Ā -chains have the following properties: (a) Scope reconstructionresults from deleting the head of the chain and interpreting a copy at the tail. (b) Non-scope-reconstruct ion results from interpreting the head of the chain with a copy of the restrictor at the tail (unless this option is impossible, as in antecedent-containeddeletion, in which case the copy is changed to a variable as in standard notations). (c) VP adjunction is an intermediate landing site. (3) A-chains are different in a way that at the moment requires a stipulative distinction.

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“…In practice, various such operations on thematic roles are widely assumed, under various formulations, most notably, in the work of Williams (1985) and Grimshaw (1990). I believe that the various operations can be reduced to just two, which we may label 'saturation' and 'reduction'.…”

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The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts

Reinhart¹

2016

Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface

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PRO and subject of NP

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Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles

Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles

Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains

The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts

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