The purpose of this thesis is to study NP movement in English passive structures within the minimalist framework. The minimalist program, following Chomsky (1991, 1993, 1995, among others), suggests that all syntactic operations such as movement are to erase and eliminate all uninterpretable feature...
The purpose of this thesis is to study NP movement in English passive structures within the minimalist framework. The minimalist program, following Chomsky (1991, 1993, 1995, among others), suggests that all syntactic operations such as movement are to erase and eliminate all uninterpretable features. Regarding the NP movement phenomenon in English passive constructions, the minimalist program proposes that the EPP feature and the Case feature of tensed T should be eliminated and the Case feature of NP should be eliminated through feature checking. However, in this paper, the Case feature of tensed T is not uninterpretable. There are four types of passive structures in English. First, in some structures, a passive verb's complement NP moves to a subject NP position. Second, in ECM structures, only a subject NP of a passive verb's complement clause moves to a higher position. Third, when a passive verb's complement clause is an ordinary clause, its movement is optional. When the clausal movement does not occur, then an expletive 'it' is inserted. Fourth, in passive 'there' construction, a passive verb's complement NP does not move at all. Thus it is not easy to give an adequate analysis to handle all the four types in the passive structures. The suggestion that all NPs move in English passive can not explain the examples containing expletive structures. The suggestion that all NPs does not have to move can not explain the examples involving a typical NP movement. This thesis has studied the previous analyses such as transformational rules, Case theory within the Government and Binding Theory, and the introductory minimalist program. The passive transformational rule proposes that all NP should move to a subject NP position. However, it is not adequate in explaining ECM structures and expletive structures. Case theory based on the notion of government is more adequate than the passive transformational rule in that it is more explanatory. However, the theory also has several problems such as adjacency requirement, which is not structure based, and a duality problem of Case. The minimalist program can handle the passive structures well based on the feature checking. However, this paper brings up the question regarding the T's uninterpretable Case feature. This paper, mainly based on the EPP feature of T and the Case feature of NP as uninterpretable, has shown the derivations of all four passive types.
The purpose of this thesis is to study NP movement in English passive structures within the minimalist framework. The minimalist program, following Chomsky (1991, 1993, 1995, among others), suggests that all syntactic operations such as movement are to erase and eliminate all uninterpretable features. Regarding the NP movement phenomenon in English passive constructions, the minimalist program proposes that the EPP feature and the Case feature of tensed T should be eliminated and the Case feature of NP should be eliminated through feature checking. However, in this paper, the Case feature of tensed T is not uninterpretable. There are four types of passive structures in English. First, in some structures, a passive verb's complement NP moves to a subject NP position. Second, in ECM structures, only a subject NP of a passive verb's complement clause moves to a higher position. Third, when a passive verb's complement clause is an ordinary clause, its movement is optional. When the clausal movement does not occur, then an expletive 'it' is inserted. Fourth, in passive 'there' construction, a passive verb's complement NP does not move at all. Thus it is not easy to give an adequate analysis to handle all the four types in the passive structures. The suggestion that all NPs move in English passive can not explain the examples containing expletive structures. The suggestion that all NPs does not have to move can not explain the examples involving a typical NP movement. This thesis has studied the previous analyses such as transformational rules, Case theory within the Government and Binding Theory, and the introductory minimalist program. The passive transformational rule proposes that all NP should move to a subject NP position. However, it is not adequate in explaining ECM structures and expletive structures. Case theory based on the notion of government is more adequate than the passive transformational rule in that it is more explanatory. However, the theory also has several problems such as adjacency requirement, which is not structure based, and a duality problem of Case. The minimalist program can handle the passive structures well based on the feature checking. However, this paper brings up the question regarding the T's uninterpretable Case feature. This paper, mainly based on the EPP feature of T and the Case feature of NP as uninterpretable, has shown the derivations of all four passive types.
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