By Susanne Winkler
This monograph offers the result of an research of secondary predication buildings. The multi-layered account argues that a number of the sorts of secondary predication buildings fluctuate with recognize to their distributional, binding-theoretic, and concentration constitution houses.
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Chomsky (1981, p. 36)) The PRO element is introduced into the resultative constructions in (23) to ensure that the postverbal NP (the subject of the RSP) is not assigned two distinct thetaroles. Rather, the postverbal NP receives a theta-role from the primary predicate, and PRO receives one from the secondary predicate. Note, however, that this treatment of resultatives violates Stowell's generalization in (21), since the PRO subject occurs in a governed position. Thus, Stowell's (1983) analysis of RSPs creates a dilemma that is caused by theory-internal requirements.
B. Mary finds [AP Melissa [A. unbearable]]. Rick expects [PP Louise [P. to dinner this evening]]. Both Chomsky (1981) and Stowell must ensure that the SC node is not considered a barrier to government in order to explain case assignment to the SC subject; however, they provide different explanations for the government relation. Chomsky (1981, p. 164, (6)) follows Aoun & Sportiche's (1983, p. 214) definition of government, which states that intervening maximal projections block government. This definition applied to Stowell's proposal would render case assignment to the SC subjects impossible.
C. d. e. Chris was considered t handsome. The children were made t happy. The pavement was run t flat. My husband was drunk t under the table. The chicken was cooked t dry. (68) a. b. c. d. e. *That boy considers handsome easily. *Young children make happy easily. *This pavement runs flat easily. *My husband drinks under the table easily. Small chickens cook dry easily. 13 Wilder (1991) and Carrier & Randall (1992) note a further test that supports the assumption that in transitive RSPs, unlike in intransitive RSPs, the postverbal NP has to be understood as an argument of the verb, namely process -ingnominalizations.