Theory of binding Book

 
TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE
THEORY OF BINDING
Abhilasha Jain
and
B.N. Patnaik
   
   


There are at least two serious problems with this analysis: (a) the trace is not properly governed and (b) this amounts to positing a "wh-movement" in the syntactic component of the grammar of a language in which relative clause formation does not involve a wh-item at all. And in which the wh-word in questions stays in place ! Thus with the non-availability of either of the alternatives, PRO in (30) and for the some reason (31) cannot be treated as ungoverned. As a consequence the theory would yield incorrect results.
(33) is a dative subject construction. The position in which PRO occurs reviews nominative Case. Consider (38):
(38)  
    (Ram likes him)
 
AGR cannot assign nominative Case to the relevant NP because the NP is contained in the VP. Lowering of AGR in order to achieve the desired result would be an ad hoc solution. If voh has to be assigned nominative case in the above, then, it will be only by the Ø CM. That would, then make the position a governed one, ruling out the occurrence of PRO. In sum, the requirement that PRO occur in ungoverned positions alone cannot account for the occurrence of PRO in the Hindi constructions (24), (30) and (31).
 
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