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accounts for the Binding Theory facts presented above.
4. Summary
In this chapter we have tried to derive Burzio's Generalization within more or less
standard theories. We have been crucially involved in subject inversion structures, because these
are among the most problematic cases for deriving BG and, in fact, are problematic of
themselves too. We have met problems with BT and their possible solutions (esp. expletive
replacement) and with Case Theory (which, in trying to derive BG, cannot anymore be
conceived as imposing a last resort strategy in search for Case).
Moreover, we have proposed a descriptive generalization on the binding-theoretical
nature of I-subjects which, under some reasonable qualifications, seems to hold true across many
languages. According to this generalization, non-NSLs have the options in 0 as possible I-
subjects (some of them only have 0.a) and 0.b)), whereas NSLs have the options in 0 (examples
in French and Catalan):
(74) I-subjects in non-NSLs:
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a. empty anaphor:
Jean a fait le travail [ DP t ]
J. has done the work
b. empty anaphor + floating SELF:
c. overt anaphor:
Jean a fait le travail [ DP t lui-même ]
J. has done the work SELF
Jean a fait le travail [ DP lui ]
J. has done the work himself