... watch television’
20 Me have more ‘I want to have some more’
21 In kitchen ‘In the kitchen’ (reply to ‘Where’s Mummy?’)
22 Me play with Daddy ‘I want to play with Daddy’
23 Open door ‘Open ... young boy called Jem/James at age 20 months;
head verbs are italicised in (12a) and head prepositions in (12b), and their complements are in non-italic
print):
( 12) (a) Touch heads. Cuddle bo...
... (at the
head of the movement chain): see Pesetsky (20 00) and Reintges, LeSourd and Chung (20 02) for analyses
of this ilk, and Watanabe (20 01) for a more general discussion of wh-in-situ structures. ... Principle (24 ), the [WH, EPP] features of C attract the closest wh-word
to move to the specifier position within CP. The closest wh-word to C in (27 ) – and indeed the only
wh-word cont...
... focusing and topicalisation, See Rizzi 1997, Cormack and Smith
20 00b, Smith and Cormack 20 02, Alexopoulou and Kolliakou 20 02, and Drubig 20 03.) However, since
topicalisation moves a maximal projection ... (force/finiteness) C constituent in (25 )
can either be spelled out as that in accordance with (26 i), or be given a null spellout in accordance with
(26 ii) as in (28 ) below:...
...
(For alternative analyses of resultative structures like ( 52) , see Keyser and Roeper 19 92, Carrier and
Randall 19 92, and Oya 20 02. )
We can extend the vP shell analysis still further, to take ... connection, consider the syntax of a raising sentence
such as:
( 72) The president does seem to me to have upset several people
1 82
C TP
ø
PRN T '
They
T vP
will...
... is participial in nature, so
accounting for why the verb is eventually spelled out in the passive participle form thought, and why
Chomsky 1999 uses the label PRT to denote the relevant participial ... defective TP clause constitutes a phase – e.g. in the case of ( 12) , not the intransitive
vP containing remain, or the vP containing the passive participle thought, or the defective TP comp...