Earliness Principle - Lear

Contents
1 Earliness vs. Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Economy of Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 The Earliness Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 LP Structure: The Inertness of do __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Argument #1 for the Innertness of do: __ Conditional Inversion (C-Inv) . 5
2.1.1 Non-inverted ________________________
Counterfactuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.2 Counterfactuals _______________________ and P a st T e nse __
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2.1.3 Do ___ in counterfactual conditionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.4 Inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.5 Non-inversion with do __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.6 A Necessary Aside: Question Inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Argument #2 for the Innertness of do: __ Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 Economy is T oo
Strong: µ or AGR? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.1 Movement to µ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.1.1 Prolegomena to main verb movement to µ in English . . . . . 17
3.1.2 Evidence for main verb movement to µ in English . . . . . . . . 18
3.2 Consequences of English Main V erb
Movement to µ . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.3 Alternatives ____________________________________________________
to the argument that µ is not an affixal position. . . . 23
3.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4 Economy is T o o W eak:
D-linking and WH-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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