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1、AgreementProjectionsAdrianaBellettiUniversitàdiSienaBelletti@unisi.itFinalversion:September1998SchemaToappearin:M.Baltin&C.Collinseds.TheHandbookofSyntacticTheory,Blackwell.(ExpectedtoappearinAugust2000)Contents:1.AbriefhistoryofthenodeAgr:Infl,AgrandT.2.Agreementheadsinfin
2、iteclauses:AgrS,AgrO...3.Ontheuniformityofclausalrepresentation:Agreementprojectionsinnon-finitecontexts.4.Agrindifferentprojections:AgrinDP,AgrinCP,Agrin“smallclauses”.5.Agrandclitics.6.TheacquisitionofAgrAgrandinterpretation.7.Appendix:SomeObservationsonTheacquisitionofAg
3、r.AgrandIinterpretabilitytion.1.AbriefhHistoryofthenodeAgr:Infl,AgrandT.Thatclausestructurecannotsimplybereducedtoaconfigurationinvolvingonemajorramificationformalizingthesubject-predicaterelationisnotanewideainthefieldofgenerativegrammar.ItispresentsinceitsbeginningsinChom
4、sky’s1957SyntacticStructureswhereapositionisgeneratedbetweentheNPsubjectandtheVPpredicatetohostmodals,auxiliariesandthe(few)affixesconstitutingtheparadigmofEnglishverbalmorphology.Althoughtheindependence(atsomelevelofrepresentation)ofverbalmorphologyandthe(particularlexical
5、choiceofthe)verbinstanciatedinoftheclausehasbeensoonbecomeenapparent,itsformalandempiricalrolehasbeenobscured,inthesixtiesandtheseventies,bythecommonusualpractice,inthesixtiesandseventies,ofrepresentingclausestructureasessentiallyconsistingofthesubject-predicaterelation,asi
6、nthestandardrewritingruleS®NPVP..Themoreorlessimplicitassumptionatthetimewasthatlanguagesdisplayingaspecialcategoryof“modals”and37“auxiliaries”shouldinvolvemoreformalstructuremediatingtherelation.EnglishMoregenerallytheGermaniclanguages,althoughthecomparativeapproachwasless
7、developedatthetimethanithasbecomeintheeightiesandnineties.wasconsideredacaseinpoint,andnothinginparticularwasassumedinmoregeneralterms.Itisonlywiththe“PrinciplesandParameters”(P&P)approach“GovernmentandBinding”thattheassumptionisgeneralizedandtakentobeapropertyofUG.Thecateg
8、ory“modal”ofEnglish,makessomethingitvisiblesomethingthatisalwayspresentandmaybelef