Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace

Because this proposal violated the Projection Principle, Hale proposed a parameter
for its application. He called it the Configurationality Parameter.
( 13) Configurationality Parameter:
i) In contigurational languages, the projection principle holds of the pair
ii)
(LS,PS).
In non-configurational languages, the projection principle holds of LS
aione.
(Hale, 1983 :26)
The result of Haie's analysis was that sufficient arguments were ensured in LS, but
they did not need to be matched up to any nominais in PS. and there was no need to
postulate any empty categories. NPs were not required to appear in thematic positions.
Therefore, they could be optional, in fiee order or discontinuous. Thus, non-
configurationality was a result of the relationship between phrase structure (PS) and
lexical structure (LS), Le., the difference in the way the Projection Principle held in this
type of language.
Jelinek (1 984) disagreed with Hale's analysis of disparate applications of the
Projection Principle for different language types. Rather, she maintained that the
Projection Principle is a universal component of al1 grammars, and must be applied as
originally designed even to nonconfigurational languages. It ensures that grammatical
relations are indicated at the surface structure, to allow for sentences to be interpretable.
The greatest difference between Jelinek's proposal and Hale's analysis is the
location of the core arguments. For Hale, they were in the lexical structure of the verb,
but were not found in the phrase structure. For Jelinek, the central arguments of the verb
were realized overtly, in the phrase structure, as verbal clitics on the awÿliary verb. These