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Chomsky and Postal on Raising – peripetie s jedním konstrukčním typem
| Title in English | Chomsky and Postal on Raising – confusions and entanglements surrounding one constructional type |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
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| Description | The question what the correct analysis of constructions containing an infinitive verb and a nominal constituent in the accusative case would look like became in the 60th one of the stumbling blocks leading to the disassociation of the generative semantics movement (with P. Postal as one of its leading figures) from mainstream, i. e. Chomskyan, generative grammar. Against Postal’s view that the accusative constituent is located in object position at surface structure, Chomsky’s view of the accusative constituent as surface subject exceptionally marked for accusative case remained dominant during the 70th and 80th until suddenly, without further comments (Seuren, 2004), the notion of ECM as raising-to-object appears in the second part of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995). The same analysis is restated in Chomsky (2013, 47). The question suggests itself if we face a major change in Chomsky’s views on the described type of construction or if there is a mere readjustment caused by a change in the theoretical perspective. In the talk I review the well known arguments of both sides of the debate and try to find an answer to the indicated question. |
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