How to Neutralize a Finite Clause Boundary

Phase Theory and the Grammar of Bound Pronouns

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5035792
AutoresThomas Grano (0000-0003-4657-9030, Indiana University, autor correspondente), Howard Lasnik (0000-0002-8221-9246, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD 20742, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume49
Fascículo3
Páginas465-499
Data de publicação2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditoraThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00279
OpenAlexW2810623962
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas48

A bound pronoun in the subject position of a finite embedded clause renders the clause boundary relatively transparent to relations ordinarily confined to monoclausal, control, and raising configurations. For example, too/ enough-movement structures involving a finite clause boundary are degraded in sentences like * This book is too long [for John to claim [that Bill read ___ in a day]] but improved when the finite clause has a bound pronominal subject as in ? This book is too long [for John1to claim [that he1read ___ in a day]]. This bound pronoun effect holds across a wide range of phenomena including too/ enough-movement, tough-movement, gapping, comparative deletion, antecedent-contained deletion, quantifier scope interaction, multiple questions, pseudogapping, reciprocal binding, and multiple sluicing; we confirm the effect via a sentence acceptability experiment targeting some of these phenomena. Our account has two crucial ingredients: (a) bound pronouns optionally enter the derivation with unvalued φ-features and (b) phases are defined in part by convergence, so that under certain conditions, unvalued features void the phasal status of CP and extend the locality domain for syntactic operations

Antecedent (behavioral psychology) · Boundary (topology) · Dependent clause · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Locality · Minimalist program · Non-finite clause · Object pronoun · Pronoun · Quantifier (linguistics) · Relative clause · Sentence · Subject (documents) · Subject pronoun · Upper and lower bounds · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation