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Lecture 9 Krisztina Szécsényi Syntax Lecture 9 Krisztina Szécsényi

Case assignment: accusative Accusative case within the verbal projection is assigned by thematic (agentive or experiencer) light verbal heads. Other environments: after prepositions or the prepositional complementizer for with them For them to win the game would be crucial.

Case assignment: nominative What assigns nominative case? Best way to find out by having a look at the environments (distribution): where do we find DPs in nominative case? They arrived/won the game/are nice. I believe that they won the game. I believe them to have won the game. For them to win the game is crucial.

Case assignment: nominative I believe that they won the game. I believe them to have won the game. A subject is NOT automatically nominative. We have nominative subjects only in finite clauses → nominative case is assigned by the constituent determining the finiteness of the sentence.

Finiteness Finiteness is the functional property associated with verbs. Finiteness is expressed by the inflections of a language. Finite inflections: -s/Ø, -ed, modals Nonfinite inflection: infinitival to Structural position: head of IP

Sentence formation Inflection phrase (IP) Specifier position: canonical subject position, if the head is finite, subjects receive nominative case here from the I head via specifier-head agreement. The inflection also agrees with the subject here. The I head selects a vP/VP.

Exam practice Multiple choice test (25) What is the canonical subject position? Spec,VP Spec,vP Spec,IP IP,Comp

Exam questions Explain why the following structures are ungrammatical (15): *Them arrived *I believe they to be talented. Draw a tree for the following sentence: (10) The train arrived at the station yesterday.