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The question of where in the sentence nominative arguments can appear has been well studied withi... more The question of where in the sentence nominative arguments can appear has been well studied within the fields of syntax (e.g. Heycock 1993; Tateishi 1994; Ura 1996 for Japanese) and semantics (e.g. Diesing 1992; Kratzer 1996 for English and German). Most of the debate has centered around the issue of whether a nominative phrase has to be licensed in SpecTP (e.g. Chomsky 1991) or if it may remain in its base position (i.e. internal to vP/VP, Agree model in Chomsky 2000). In particular, it has been suggested, for several languages such as German, Greek, Japanese and Turkish, that, in these languages, certain subjects might be vP/VP-internal, never raising to SpecTP (see e.g. Haider 2005 and Wurmbrand 2006 for German; Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 2001 for Greek; Tateishi 1994 for Japanese; Kornfilt 1984 and Öztürk 2004, 2005 for Turkish). In this paper, we provide, for the first time, prosodic evidence in support of this position: We show, focusing on Turkish, that, in this language, tw...
Coyote Papers Working Papers in Linguistics Linguistic Theory at the University of Arizona, 2012
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012
The question of where in the sentence nominative arguments can appear has been well studied withi... more The question of where in the sentence nominative arguments can appear has been well studied within the fields of syntax (e.g. Heycock 1993; Tateishi 1994; Ura 1996 for Japanese) and semantics (e.g. Diesing 1992; Kratzer 1996 for English and German). Most of the debate has centered around the issue of whether a nominative phrase has to be licensed in SpecTP (e.g. Chomsky 1991) or if it may remain in its base position (i.e. internal to vP/VP, Agree model in Chomsky 2000). In particular, it has been suggested, for several languages such as German, Greek, Japanese and Turkish, that, in these languages, certain subjects might be vP/VP-internal, never raising to SpecTP (see e.g. Haider 2005 and Wurmbrand 2006 for German; Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 2001 for Greek; Tateishi 1994 for Japanese; Kornfilt 1984 and Öztürk 2004, 2005 for Turkish). In this paper, we provide, for the first time, prosodic evidence in support of this position: We show, focusing on Turkish, that, in this language, tw...
Coyote Papers Working Papers in Linguistics Linguistic Theory at the University of Arizona, 2012
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012