‘That-trace’ Effects, Aux-Inversions, and Subject Islands as Kin
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This paper argues that ‘that-trace’ effects, along with Aux-Inversions, can be dealt with in the same way as Subject Islands in English. In order to do this, it is proposed that (i) all the goals relevant to a C are simultaneously activated at a point of derivation where the C merges, (ii) Merge of ‘that’ to a C forces the probe u[T] on the C to enter first into AGREE with the [T]-feature on a finite T, and (iii) only activated features raise Intervention effects on AGREE. It is further claimed that each feature (i.e., probe) on a C has an EPP property only if the pied-piping of an element satisfying AGREE with the probe meets the Extension Condition.
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This paper argues that ‘that-trace’ effects, along with Aux-Inversions, can be dealt with in the same way as Subject Islands in English. In order to do this, it is proposed that (i) all the goals relevant to a C are simultaneously activated at a point of derivation where the C merges, (ii) Merge of ‘that’ to a C forces the probe u[T] on the C to enter first into AGREE with the [T]-feature on a finite T, and (iii) only activated features raise Intervention effects on AGREE. It is further claimed that each feature (i.e., probe) on a C has an EPP property only if the pied-piping of an element satisfying AGREE with the probe meets the Extension Condition.