Decomposition of the Little v : Possessors of Interest

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Since the little v was introduced into the Minimalist syntax (Larson 1988, Hale and Keyser 1993, Chomsky 1995: chap.3, Collins 1997, among others), its θ-role assignment mechanism has been frequently discussed. There have been two approaches of dealing with the properties of v: the feature-specification system which leads to four types of v is proposed by Hasegawa (2001) on one hand, and split-v analyses have been proposed on the other (cf. Bowers 2002, Pylkkanen 2002, and Tonosaki 2003). Developing Hasegawa's analysis, we propose decomposition of v through the examination of data of non-Agentive sentences, especially those which we call Possessive-Relationship Constructions (PRCs). We also argue that the proposed system is preferable in terms of Burzio's Generalization (Burzio 1981, 1986)
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