英語の話題化構文に対するラベル付け分析

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  • エイゴ ノ ワダイカ コウブン ニ タイスル ラベル ズケ ブンセキ
  • A Labeling-based Analysis of Topicalization in English

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It is well-known that topicalization shows the syntactically idiosyncratic properties such as island effects, the restriction on its occurrences and the ban on its local application to subject. In the previous studies, it has been pointed out that the first two properties are also found in Locative Inversion Construction (LIC). On the other hand, LIC is crucially different from topicalization in that the locative PP shows subjecthood as well as topichood. In other words, the locative PP as a topic element occupies the subject position while local subject topicalization is not allowed. In addition to LIC, subject interrogatives must also be taken into consideration since there are some pieces of evidence for the local movement of the subject wh - phrase. The aim of this paper is to propose the syntactic derivation of topicalization in English and to account for the syntactic properties of topicalization in the framework of the Labeling Algorithm (LA) proposed by Chomsky (2013, 2015). In particular, it is proposed that the derivation of sentences including a topic element is involved in the complex head {H, H} that consists of two phase heads: one possesses unvalued phi-features and the other possesses unvalued topic feature. Then, it is argued that one of the two must undergo movement or deletion for labeling. The sentence including topicalization is derived by the application of movement, and LIC is derived by the application of deletion. The common syntactic properties can be attributed to the existence of the complex head. Additionally, the (im) possibility of local subject movement in topicalization and interrogatives can also be accounted for under copy’s visibility and LA, along with the plausible assumption of the featural distribution.

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  • IVY

    IVY 54 49-69, 2021-12-15

    名古屋大学英文学会

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