NOTES ON ANTECEDENT-GOVERNMENT AND BLOCKING CATEGORIES
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by The English Linguistic Society of Japan in ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
- Vol. 5, 38-53
- https://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.5.38
Abstract
In this article, I examine multiple wh-questions and adjunction structures derived by the Quantifier Raising. I argue that adjunction to a maximal projection creates another maximal projection and that government should be defined in terms of domination but not exclusion. I also claim that a blocking category should be defined in terms of V-marking; that is, the determination of a blocking category should be based on the relation between a head and its complement but not on L-marking. Then I analyze some properties of an antecedent-governor. These considerations have several theoretical implications with respect to VP-adjunction and a filter proposed in Chomsky and Lasnik 1977.Keywords
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