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LAST RESORT AND V MOVEMENT 215process that checks a formal V feature or satisfies an internal condition of thecore. Imperative verbs display the appropriate features to allow for suchreinterpretation.Recall that two types of imperative V movement were introduced in theprevious section. In MGrk, the process applies for formal feature checking orobeys Last Resort, so it is obligatory. By contrast with MGrk, imperatives inBlg do not raise to C to check a formal feature; V movement to C exists, isoptional, and applies to satisfy a PF need of a functional category with aphonological matrix, which is a pronominal clitic.Rivero and Terzi (1995) assign to the rule that raises imperative verbs inAncient Grk properties that resemble in great measure raising of imperativeverbs in Big (section 2), so let us recall their analysis. First, in this stage, Vsdistribute alike, irrespective of their logical or semantic mood. As illustrated forindicatives and imperatives in (21)-(22), V may either be initial and precede thediscourse particle or appear deeply embedded in its own clause when a constituentprecedes that particle. In terms of the present essay the proposal is thatin (21), verbs raise to satisfy a PF requirement of the discourse particle as afunctional category with a phonological matrix, not to check a formal feature. Inother words, verb movement is optional, as it does not check a formal featurecontained in V against a formal feature of the appropriate functional category,that is, either C or the particle itself, which Rivero and Terzi (1995) place in adifferent projection from C.(21) a. Eboulomen men ouk erizein enthade. AGrkwish-IND.l P NEC contend here'And I wish(ed) I were not contending here (as I am).'(Aristophanes, Ranae 866)b. Patakson men, akouson de.strike-lMP.2 P listen-lMP.2 P'By all means strike but listen.'(Plutarch, Themistocles 11.3.6)(22) a. Ego men ouk oida.I P NEG G know-IND.l'I, lor my part, do not know.'(Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.12)b. Ta men poiei, to de me poiei.these P do-IMP.2 these P NEG do-IMP.2'Do this but do not do that.'(Plato, Protagoras 325d)In this view, the discourse particles of AGrk are very similar to Blg li: they arefunctional categories that introduce clauses, display a phonological matrix, andimpose PF or external conditions. Those conditions are preferably met throughcomputational operations such as Merge and Move but otherwise trigger verb