There-Insertion as a Last Resort
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Chomsky (1957) and Hornstein (2001) propose that certain expressions like do are inherently grammatical in that they are not part of the lexicon and they are only usable if required for convergence. This article proposes that there is also on the list of inherently grammatical items. More precisely, the expletive there is inserted as a last resort to satisfy the EPP of T when the most prominent argument cannot undergo raising. This article shows that the last resort approach enables us to provide a principled account of various peculiarities of there-constructions, including the contrast between the pure existential constructions and the extraposed existential constructions with regard to the definiteness condition, the co-occurrence restrictions on the type of verbs, and the adjacency condition.
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Chomsky (1957) and Hornstein (2001) propose that certain expressions like do are inherently grammatical in that they are not part of the lexicon and they are only usable if required for convergence. This article proposes that there is also on the list of inherently grammatical items. More precisely, the expletive there is inserted as a last resort to satisfy the EPP of T when the most prominent argument cannot undergo raising. This article shows that the last resort approach enables us to provide a principled account of various peculiarities of there-constructions, including the contrast between the pure existential constructions and the extraposed existential constructions with regard to the definiteness condition, the co-occurrence restrictions on the type of verbs, and the adjacency condition.
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