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e in the c-command domain could be given up, since A-movement (which will be a
consequence of this coindexing), could follow from general constraints forbidding downward
movement:
(48) At D-structure, AGR must be coindexed with some DP or CP.
Therefore, our principle of AGR coindexation can be simplified in a radical way.
The simplified versions 0, 0 or 0 may be problematic for our account for German
impersonal verbs, which was based on the parameter 0:
0 At D-structure, AGR must be coindexed with the most prominent non-(inherently-)Case-
marked DP or CP in its c-command domain (if there is one).
If we parameterize 0 or 0 in a similar way, we obtain undesirable results. Consider:
(49) a. Es graut mir vor geistern.
It fears me-DAT of ghosts
'Ghosts frighten me'
b. Es graut mir davor dass der krieg anfangen könnte
It fears me-DAT it-of that the war start could
'It frightens me that the war could start'
If no prominence requirement is used, AGR would be coindexed with der krieg in 0.b)
(because der krieg is the most prominent DP not being Case-marked at D-structure) and then the
structure would be filtered as a case of super-raising. If no case requirement is used, AGR would
have to be coindexed with geistern (or mir) in 0.a) and then it would be incorrectly ruled out as
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