Jaume Solà i Pujols - Departament de Filologia Catalana ...

Table of contents
Acknowledgements.........................................ix
List of Abbreviations and Glosses.........................x
Chapter 1 - Introduction..................................1
1. Aims and Scope of this Thesis..........................3
2. Some Basic Premises....................................6
2.1. The Internal Subject Hypothesis....................6
2.2. Subject Inversion..................................7
2.2.1. Transitive/Unergative Constructions...........11
2.2.2. Unaccusative/Passive Constructions............15
2.2.3. Copulative Constructions......................19
2.2.4. On the Availability of Subject Inversion......23
2.2.5. Floating Quantifiers..........................26
2.3. The Projection of Arguments.......................28
2.4. The Split INFL Hypothesis and Verb Movement.......30
2.5. Case Theory.......................................33
Chapter 2 - Burzio's Generalization and EPP..............35
1. Introduction..........................................35
2. Possible Solutions Based on CHAIN Theory..............39
2.1. The Extended Projection Principle.................39
2.2. CHAINS............................................40
2.3. Conditions on Expletive CHAINS....................43
2.4. Problems..........................................48
2.4.1. Empirical Problems............................49
2.4.2. Theoretical Problems..........................51
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