On the position of ECM subjects : a case study from Japanese

On the basis of new empirical data from Japanese, this paper argues that in the ECM construction where CP is projected in the embedded clause, the embedded subject undergoes A-movement to Spec of embedded CP, but not to the matrix object position. ECM subjects are argued to appear in a position suff...

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Published inLinguistica Brunensia Vol. 68; no. 2; p. 7
Main Author Kishimoto, Hideki
Format Journal Article
LanguageCzech
English
Published Brno Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Science 01.01.2021
Masaryk University
Subjects
A-movement
complementizer
Embedded constructions
exceptional case marking
Extended projection principle
Grammatical case
Japanese
Japanese language
Predicate
Sentence structure
Syntactic movement
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Summary:On the basis of new empirical data from Japanese, this paper argues that in the ECM construction where CP is projected in the embedded clause, the embedded subject undergoes A-movement to Spec of embedded CP, but not to the matrix object position. ECM subjects are argued to appear in a position sufficiently high to be Case-licensed by the matrix predicate, so that the Case feature of the ECM subject residing in the embedded CP is valued as accusative by the matrix verb. It is further suggested that A-movement of ECM subjects into the embedded CP is motivated by the C head retaining its EPP feature without feature inheritance from C to T.
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ISSN:1803-7410
2336-4440
DOI:10.5817/LB2020-2-2