Labeling small clauses

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2022.v18n1a52459

Keywords:

small clause, case, ϕ-features, label

Abstract

There are several studies on the categorial status of Small Clauses (SCs) (STOWELL, 1981; MORO, 2000, and others), PrP (BOWERS, 1993), and PredP (BAILYN, 2001) etc.). Given that a theory of exocentric phrase structure requires Syntactic Objects to be labeled so that Full Interpretation can interpret it in CI, we ought to understand which label is given to SCs. The objective of this paper is to analyze data from Portuguese and Russian to argue that the system presented in two recent papers, Problems of Projection, PoP, (CHOMSKY, 2013, 2015), can explain the case and agreement morphology within SCs crosslinguistically. I propose that SCs can be labelled as ϕ in the PoP system when subject and predicate share these features. Otherwise, in case of mismatch between the morphological specifications of the subject-predicate set, the subject must be raised so that the predicate’s case feature can be valued.

Author Biography

Marcelo Amorim Sibaldo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2004) e doutorado em Letras e Linguística pela Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2009), com período sanduíche na City University of New York (Estados Unidos). Fez um ano de estágio de Pós-Doutorado na University of Cambridge (Inglaterra). Atuou como Professor Adjunto no período de janeiro de 2010 a abril de 2016 na Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Unidade Acadêmica de Serra Talhada. Atualmente é Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Letras e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e Tutor do Grupo PET-Letras/UFPE. Tem experiência na área de Linguística, com ênfase em teoria e análise linguística.
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2022-04-23

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2022): Studies in theory of grammar

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