Abstract Case and Agree are technical terms meant here in the framework of Chomsky (1000 et seq.), and the investigation is pursued in that framework, but the issue is by no means internal to it. I use the term theta-related Case for all morphological case marking whose identity depends on the local relationship of a DP to its selector, whether canonical for a theta-role or idiosyncratic (Woolford’s (2006) lexical and inherent Case). It stands in contrast to structural Case, which is assigned to a DP by a functional head that does not select it, often at a potentially unbounded distance. The hallmark of theta-related Case is that it does not alternate with the embedding of an argument selector under different functional architectures such as raising and ECM, and that it cannot be borne by non-thematic elements such as there type expletives, unlike structural Case.
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