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The structure of English gerunds.

Suzuki, Tatsuya.

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The structure of English gerunds.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The structure of English gerunds./
Author:	Suzuki, Tatsuya.
Description:	212 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Frederick Newmeyer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-08A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8820445

The structure of English gerunds.
Suzuki, Tatsuya.

The structure of English gerunds. - 212 p.

Chairperson: Frederick Newmeyer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1988.

This study provides an analysis of English gerunds in the Government-Binding theory (Chomsky 1981) and justifies five principal claims: (i) the gerundive construction is endocentric; (ii) minimality defines the domain of government; (iii) the DP hypothesis (Fukui and Speas 1986) is correct; (iv) the distribution of determiners and genitive DPs is governed by what I call the "Definiteness Principle;" and (v) only traces in A-positions are subject to the ECP. As we will see, these five claims are interrelated.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The structure of English gerunds.
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245 1 4 $a The structure of English gerunds.
300 $a 212 p.
500 $a Chairperson: Frederick Newmeyer.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-08, Section: A, page: 2204.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1988.
520 $a This study provides an analysis of English gerunds in the Government-Binding theory (Chomsky 1981) and justifies five principal claims: (i) the gerundive construction is endocentric; (ii) minimality defines the domain of government; (iii) the DP hypothesis (Fukui and Speas 1986) is correct; (iv) the distribution of determiners and genitive DPs is governed by what I call the "Definiteness Principle;" and (v) only traces in A-positions are subject to the ECP. As we will see, these five claims are interrelated.
520 $a As for (i), I assign a sentential structure to all verbal gerunds, and appeal to the feature ($\pm $n ) of INFL -ing in distinguishing POSS-ING, ACC-ING, and PRO-ING gerunds. As for (ii), I argue that the objective Case of the subject in ACC-ING is an example of exceptional Case marking, which itself demands that its INFL feature ($- $n ) is not a Case assigner. Given (iii), it is possible to explain the hybrid nature of gerunds, i.e. that they seem partly nominal and partly sentential, without violating X-bar theory. Their Case requirement can be explained in terms of a Case Filter for Determiner Phrases. The Definiteness Principle of (iv) appeals to the feature (+Definite) and allows for a more general treatment of Ross' Left-Branch Condition and extraction from DPs. And the assumption of (v) explains some puzzling facts about the Superiority and that-trace effects.
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