The Extended Projection Principle as a Condition on the Tense-Dependency
IAN ROBERTS & ANNA ROUSSOU
(University of Stuttgart and University of Wales, Bangor)
THE EXTENDED PROJECTION PRINCIPLE AS A CONDITION ON THE TENSE-DEPENDENCY*(* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the LAGB Autumn Meeting in Cardiff (September 1996), the Bangor Research Seminar (October 1996, February 1998), the University of Stuttgart (October 1996), the Workshop on Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP in Tromsø (June 1997), and at the Research Seminar at the University of Geneva (November 1997). We are grateful to the audiences for comments. We would also like to thank Bob Borsley, Liliane Haegeman, Ursel Luhde, Gereon Müller, Peter Svenonius and Tarald Taraldsen for useful comments and discussions.
This paper forms part of a larger research project supported by the British Academy (Grant No: APN 2989) which we gratefully acknowledge.)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified account of two seemingly unrelated phenomena: what we call the Asubject requirement,@ which corresponds to the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) of Chomsky (1982, 1995), and the AV2 requirement@. We argue that they both reduce to properties of T, and, arguably, to a single property of T in connection to the position where T is spelled-out. In particular, the Asubject requirement@ arises when T is realised in the IP domain, while the AV2 requirement@ arises when T is spelled-out in the CP domain. In the first case the features associated with AgrS identify the T-dependency, and when AgrS is absent as in some infinitivals identification comes directly from C. The mode in which the subject requirement is satisfied further depends on how AgrS, i.e. the subject position, is parametrically realised (if at all), that is either as a head or a specifier, depending on the morphological properties of the particular languages. In the second case, identification of the T-dependency follows from the presence of an XP in SpecCP. This is the essence of our account of the V2
(University of Stuttgart and University of Wales, Bangor)
THE EXTENDED PROJECTION PRINCIPLE AS A CONDITION ON THE TENSE-DEPENDENCY*(* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the LAGB Autumn Meeting in Cardiff (September 1996), the Bangor Research Seminar (October 1996, February 1998), the University of Stuttgart (October 1996), the Workshop on Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP in Tromsø (June 1997), and at the Research Seminar at the University of Geneva (November 1997). We are grateful to the audiences for comments. We would also like to thank Bob Borsley, Liliane Haegeman, Ursel Luhde, Gereon Müller, Peter Svenonius and Tarald Taraldsen for useful comments and discussions.
This paper forms part of a larger research project supported by the British Academy (Grant No: APN 2989) which we gratefully acknowledge.)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified account of two seemingly unrelated phenomena: what we call the Asubject requirement,@ which corresponds to the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) of Chomsky (1982, 1995), and the AV2 requirement@. We argue that they both reduce to properties of T, and, arguably, to a single property of T in connection to the position where T is spelled-out. In particular, the Asubject requirement@ arises when T is realised in the IP domain, while the AV2 requirement@ arises when T is spelled-out in the CP domain. In the first case the features associated with AgrS identify the T-dependency, and when AgrS is absent as in some infinitivals identification comes directly from C. The mode in which the subject requirement is satisfied further depends on how AgrS, i.e. the subject position, is parametrically realised (if at all), that is either as a head or a specifier, depending on the morphological properties of the particular languages. In the second case, identification of the T-dependency follows from the presence of an XP in SpecCP. This is the essence of our account of the V2
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