The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Aspect - Vinartus

34 CHAPTER 2. NOUN PHRASE AND SENTENCEHorrocks & Stavrou (1985) also argue for a Comp \escape hatch" inmodern Greek, though not on the basis of a dative possessor. Horrocks &Stavrou note that many extractions from noun phrase that are ungrammaticalin English are good in Greek:(40) pyon i akuses [t i mi [t i oti [apelisan t i ]]]who hear-2s the story that dismiss-3p*who did you hear [the story [that they dismissed t]][to kokino] i mu ipes pos aghorases [t i to forema t i ]the red me-dat said-2s how bought-2s the dress*the red you told me that you bought thet dressHe correlates this with the fact that there is a \topic" position in the nounphrase in Greek:(41) a. to vivlio [tu Chomsky]the book [the-gen Chomsky]\Chomsky's book"to endhiaferon [ya to arthro afto]the interest [in the article this]\the interest in this article"to forema [to kokino]the dress [the red]\the red dress"b. [[tu Chomsky] i [to vivlio t i ]]\Chomsky's book"[[ya to arthro afto] i [to endhiaron t i ]]\the interest in this article"[[to kokino] i [to forema t i ]]\the red dress"He claims that this topic position is the specier of a noun-phrase Comp(K), which also serves as an escape hatch for extraction out of noun phrasein Greek:(42) [to kokino] i mu ipes pos aghorases [ KP t i [ DP to forema t i ]]If Horrocks & Stavrou's and Szabolcsi's claim that there is a nounphraseComp can be veried|and the evidence, at least on the cursory