Grammatical Theory Session 6: Government & Binding: Passive and local reordering (Scrambling)
Channel: Stefan Müller
Date: 2020-11-27

This session explains the analysis of passive as movement of an NP to the specifier position of IP for case-theoretic reasons (Case filter). It also deals with approaches to local reordering in German (scrambling) and points out problems of movement-based approaches. Furthermore it is discussed why the alternative – base-generation of all possible orders – is problematic for approaches assuming that the subject is generated outside of the VP.

These slides correspond to my Grammatical theory textbook.
Textbook: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/287