An empty category as the subject of a tensed S in English
1986; The MIT Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1530-9150
Autores Tópico(s)Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
ResumoAN EMPTY CATEGORY AS THE SUBJECT OF A TENSED S IN ENGLISH Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., University of California, Davis It is very commonly asserted in Government-Binding Theory (GB) analyses of English that English, unlike (for example) Italian and Chinese, cannot have an empty category (EC) as the subject of a tensed clause (see, for example, Chomsky (1981a; 1982), Huang (1984)). That is, sentences like the following are impossible.
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