ContentsPreface ................................................................................................................ v

Chapter 1 Goals and Framework ............................................................... 1
1.1. Goals ...................................................................................................... 1
1.2. General Framework ............................................................................... 4
1.2.1. The Model of Grammar ................................................................ 5
1.2.2. Features .......................................................................................... 6
1.2.3. Agree .............................................................................................. 8
1.2.4. Merge ............................................................................................. 9
1.2.5. Bare Phrase Structure.................................................................. 111.2.6. Derivation .................................................................................... 12Chapter 2 On the Subject Condition ........................................................ 21
2.1. Phase-Based Approach to the Subject Condition .............................. 21
2.2. Some Problems .................................................................................... 29
2.3. An Alternative Analysis ...................................................................... 32
2.3.1. Theoretical Assumptions: The Excorporation Analysis
and the Inactivity Condition ....................................................... 32
2.3.2. An Excorporation Solution ......................................................... 41
2.3.3. Subextraction from Matrix Clause Subjects .............................. 57ix

On Extraction from SubjectsxChapter 3 Total Extraction......................................................................... 71
3.1. Pre-Minimalist Approach .................................................................... 72
3.1.1. Chomsky’s (1986a) Approach: Rigid Minimality...................... 72
3.1.2. Rizzi’s (1990) Approach: Relativized Minimality ..................... 74
3.1.3. Problems with Pre-Minimalist Analyses .................................... 78
3.2. The Excorporation Analysis................................................................ 81
3.2.1. For-Copy Effects ......................................................................... 82
3.2.2. That-Copy Effects ....................................................................... 86
3.2.3. Extraction from an Innitival Subject of the Complement
Clause of want............................................................................. 95
3.3. Rizzi and Shlonsky (2007) ............................................................... 103
3.3.1. The Subject Criterion ................................................................ 103
3.3.2. The Subject Criterion and Overt Complementizer-Copy Effects.................................................................................................... 110
3.3.3. Some Problems and Their Solutions ........................................ 112

Chapter 4 Extraction from Objects ........................................................ 117
4.1. Extraction from Objects and Its Problems ...................................... 117
4.2. A Solution .......................................................................................... 123
4.2.1. Simultaneous Syntactic Relation and the RIC ........................ 124
4.2.2. The Nature of the Simultaneous Syntactic Relation ............... 128
4.3. Extraction from Subjects of ECM.................................................... 132
4.4. Extraction from Subjects of Other Types of Object-Raising
Constructions ..................................................................................... 140
4.4.1. Extraction from a Subject of an Acc-ing Gerund ................... 140
4.4.2. Extraction from a Subject of a Perceptual or Causative
Construction ............................................................................... 150

Chapter 5
5.1.
5.2.
5.3.
5.4.
5.5.

Extraction from Subjects of Passive and Unaccusative
Predicates ................................................................................. 155
Extraction from Subjects of Passive Predicates .............................. 155
Extraction from Subjects of Unaccusative Predicates ..................... 165
Extraction from the Unaccusative Predicate arrive......................... 179
Agreement in there-Constructions .................................................... 185
Summary ............................................................................................ 187

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Chapter 6

Summary and Conclusion ..................................................... 189

References ...................................................................................................... 195
Index ............................................................................................................... 201