著者

TOSHIAKI NISHIHARA

出版者

The English Linguistic Society of Japan

雑誌

ENGLISH LINGUISTICS (ISSN:09183701)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, no.2, pp.381-404, 1999 (Released:2009-12-24)

参考文献数

31

被引用文献数

6 6

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This paper aims to discuss the properties of locative/directional inversion (LI) and one subtype of there-construction, namely the Outside Verbal Existential construction (OVE), and to show that the multiple subject analysis of LI and OVE fails to capture all the relevant properties of LI and OVE. Through discussion it will be shown that the VP shell analysis for unaccusative verbs, which is proposed by Radford (1997) and Nishihara (1999), and the specification of P-feature and Topic feature in the finite clauses can provide accounts for the properties of LI and some types of there-construction.