Economy of Representation

R. Lee, 1995

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Table of Contents

Chapter I.      Introduction ....................................................................................................................1

1.1          Goals ................................................................................................................................1

1.2          Proposals .........................................................................................................................6

Notes..............................................................................................................................................9

Chapter II.    Argument / Adjunct Asymmetry .................................................................................12

           2.1      Licensing of Adjuncts ....................................................................................................12

                       2.1.1   Theta-Marketing or Predication? ..................................................................12

                       2.1.2   Adverb Licensing by Head Feature ................................................................14

                                   2.1.2.1 Transportability ...................................................................................14

                                   2.1.2.2 Travis (1988) ........................................................................................15

                       2.1.3   The Checking Hypothesis ................................................................................17

                       2.1.4   ADV – Features and The Typology of Checking ............................................19

           2.2      Argument / Adjunct Asymmetry .................................................................................25

           2.3      The Last Resort Principle and The Non-Adjunction Hypothesis .............................27

           2.4      Argument / Adjunct Asymmetry Revisited ................................................................31

                       2.4.1   Intermediate CP Specs? ...................................................................................33

                       2.4.2   CP – Adverbs .....................................................................................................34

                       2.4.3   Implications / Speculations .............................................................................36

           2.5      Summary ........................................................................................................................38

           Notes ...........................................................................................................................................39

Chapter III.   Argument / Adjunct Asymmetry in Weak Islands ....................................................46

           3.1      Facts ...............................................................................................................................46

                       3.1.1   Inner Islands ....................................................................................................46

                       3.1.2   Wh – Island ......................................................................................................49

                       3.1.3   Factive Island ...................................................................................................51

           3.2      Previous Analyses .........................................................................................................51

                       3.2.1   Rizzi (1990) .......................................................................................................51

                                   3.2.1.1 Relativized Minimality .......................................................................52

                                   3.2.1.2 Referentiality.......................................................................................54

                       3.2.2   Cinque (1990) ...................................................................................................56

                       3.2.3   Murasugi and Saito (1992) ..............................................................................60

           3.3      Proposed Analysis .........................................................................................................63

                       3.3.1   Deriving Extraction Asymmetry From Adjunction Asymmetry .................63

                       3.3.2   Measure Phrases and Adverbiality ................................................................67

                      3.3.3   Wh – Quantifiers and Adverbiality ................................................................69

                                   3.3.3.1 Adverbs and Scopal Elements ...........................................................69

                                   3.3.3.2 Scope Reconstruction and Weak islands .........................................71

                       3.3.4   NP-Movement ...................................................................................................73

           3.4      Implications and Summary ...........................................................................................74

           Notes ............................................................................................................................................75

Chapter IV. Scrambling ..........................................................................................................................81

           4.1      The Undoing Properties of A – Scrambling ..............................................................82

           4.2      A – Movement Properties of Scrambling ..................................................................85

                       4.2.1   Facts ..................................................................................................................85

4.2.2   Arguments Against the Case–Driven A–Movement Analysis of A– Scrambling..........................................................................................................87

           4.2.2.1 Adverbial Interpretation, The EPP, and Make Shortest

Movement ............................................................................................88

                                   4.2.2.2 Long Distance A–Scrambling and The Last Resort Principle .........92

4.3      Saito (1992): Scrambling as Uniformly Non–Operator, Non–A Adjunction Movement, and Reanalysis ..........................................................................................95

4.4      Scrambling as Uniformly a Non–Morphologically Driven Operation .....................98

           4.4.1   Free Merging and the Configuration of A–Scrambling ...............................98

           4.4.2   Case–Checking Configuration and A to A Transition ...............................100

                       4.4.2.1 AGR Spec Transition and Subject Shift ...........................................101

                       4.4.2.2 AGR Spec Transition and Object Shift Without Verb Raising .....103

           4.4.3   Adjunction Positions and The Undoing Properties ...................................108

4.5      Legitimate LF Scrambling Chains ...............................................................................111

           4.5.1   Deriving Legitimate LF Scrambling Chains From the Checking

                       Measure ..........................................................................................................111

           4.5.2   Long Distance Scrambling and the Checking Measure ............................115

Notes .........................................................................................................................................122

Chapter V.     Implications .................................................................................................................131

           5.1      A–Movement and Greed ...........................................................................................132

           5.2      Reconstruction and Theta Positions ........................................................................134

           5.3      Head Movement and Deletion as a Last Resort Operation ..................................137

           5.4      Summary and Conclusion ..........................................................................................141

           Notes .........................................................................................................................................144

Bibliography ...........................................................................................................................................151