Modal Feature Erasure and the Principle Last Resort : Evidence for Another Formal Feature of C^0

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The feature checking theory concentrates on categorial and syntactic features (cf. Chomsky 1995). It is assumed that the remaining existence of a [-Interpretable] feature at LF causes the derivation to crash. Move is forced to eliminate [-Interpretable] features. Structural Case features and some categorial features are [-Interpretable] and must be eliminated. A [+WH] feature of C^0 and D^0 has long been regarded as a syntactic feature constrained by the Principle LR (Last Resort). What about semantic properties? The current analysis of theta role discharge contends that theta roles are formal features of V^0 and that they obey the Principle LR (Saito and Hoshi 1998, Boskovic and Takahashi 1995, Lasnik 1995). We argue for the existence of another formal feature of T^0 and C^0, i.e., a modal feature. Modal feature checking is another LR-constrained UG operation, just as Case feature checking and WH feature checking.
桃山学院大学の論文
1998-07-31