- 著者
- DAISUKE HIRAI
- 出版者
- The English Linguistic Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- ENGLISH LINGUISTICS (ISSN:09183701)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.21, no.2, pp.241-264, 2004 (Released:2009-12-24)
- 参考文献数
- 36
- 被引用文献数
- 1 1
Although control infinitives have been assumed to be uniformly CP as strong phases, I argue within the framework of the Minimalist Program in Chomsky (2001a) that control infinitives are divided into two types of CP phases. Specifically, it is proposed that irrealis infinitives are weak CP phases while realis infinitives are strong CP phases. This proposal not only explains the applicability of Heavy DP Shift out of control infinitives and other empirical facts including Double Passive Constructions in English and Scrambling out of finite clauses in Japanese, but also provides a conceptual advantage in that the strong/weak distinction is relevant for CP phases as well as vP phases, thereby making possible a unified treatment of CP and vP.