CIRCUMSTANTIAL PREDICATES, PRO, AND D-STRUCTURE ADJUNCTION

Hidehito Hoshi

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This paper shows that so-called circumstantial predicates have PRO as their subjects. More specifically, we point out that circumstantial predicates and PRO form a small clause (SC), arguing that three types of secondary predicates, namely circumstantial, depictive, and resultative predicates, are affiliated to different positions in VP. We claim, from a theoretical viewpoint, that the SC formed by a circumstantial predicate and PRO is adjoined to VP at D-Structure. Furthermore, we argue that the segment of VP which inherits barrierhood from the SC blocks wh-extraction of circumstantial predicates.

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