Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky’s On phases

Abstract

Claim (1a) is familiar from Chomsky’s earlier work and can in part be traced back to the barrier theory outlined in Chomsky (1986a). Claim (1b) amounts to saying that the φ-features on T and V are inherited from respectively C and v* (the light verb associated with verbs that take an external argument); the fact that T and V do not inherently contain φfeatures is given as a first reason for the claim in (1a) that these heads do not define a phase boundary. Claim (1c), finally, states that A′-movement does not attract the head of an A-chain, as was assumed in earlier proposals, but the foot. If a phase head triggers both Aand A′-movement, these movements proceed in parallel. This is indicated in (2) for the case of Wh-movement of the subject of the clause; recall that T can only attract the subject DP by virtue of inheriting the φ-features of C.

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