Speaker: Kenyon Branan (MIT)<\/br>
\nTitle: A long distance subject\/object extraction<\/br>
\nDate\/Time:Thursday, October 21, 12:30-1:45pm<\/br>
\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n
\nThere are a number of ditransitive verbs that are able to take both a DP and a CP complement. A subset of these verbs exhibit an interesting asymmetry: long distance object extraction of a DP is grammatical, whereas long distance subject extraction of a DP is ungrammatical, even when licensing conditions for long distance subject extraction are fulfilled. Examples of ungrammatical subject extraction are given below.<\/p>\n
(1) a.* Who did we convince them [ __ sighted Bigfoot]?<\/br>
\nb.* Who did they persuade themselves [ __ should move to Canada]?<\/br>
\nc.* What did they assure each other [ __ has sunk]?<\/p>\nPrevious accounts of this [Stowell (1981), Bo\u009akovi? and Lasnik (2003)] attribute this ungrammaticality to licensing conditions for elements moved out of subject position. We take a different approach. We show that this ungrammaticality obtains only in cases where the extracted subject is a DP. We give evidence from two tests which suggest that the matrix subject of these verbs originates below [spec,vP]. Putting these two together, we argue that the ungrammaticality of sentences like (1) is the result of an intervention effect. The movement of a DP containing a wh-word to [spec,vP] creates a structure where T is unable to Agree with the low subject, the moved DP acting as an intervener.<\/p>\n
We propose that there is a structural difference between long distance subject movement and long distance object movement. Long distance subject movement involves movement of a subject from the CP to matrix [spec,vP]. Long distance object movement involves two steps: movement of the CP to [spec,vP], and subextraction of the object DP from the CP. Crucially, long distance object movement does not create the asymmetric c-command relationship between two syntactic objects of the same type which characterizes intervention effects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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