APPLICATION OF GENERATIVE PROCEDURES FOR SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES INVESTIGATION (ON THE BASIS OF THE EXISTENTIAL THERE)
Keywords:
expletive, CP projection, TP projection, Probe — Goal agreement, interpreted / uninterpreted features.Abstract
The article highlights the advantages of generative methods in the investigation of syntactic structuresand explains the emergence of expletive there in the sentence structure. The adverb there occurs
in the sentence as an expletive topic [Spec, CP] preventing the verb from occupying this position especially
in the V2 languages. Due to the development of SVO word order as well as the re-interpretation process
it starts to function in the canonical [Spec, T] subject position.
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