出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：This paper deals with some asymmetries related to ‘DP-internal’ subjects, subjects of noun phrases in the traditional sense. It is shown that while all DP-internal subjects surface in the same form, that is, in the genitive form, their syntactic behavior varies depending upon their thematic status: the Arg phrase, which is inherently related to the head N, and the Poss phrase, which is not, exhibit surprising differences in behavior with respect to control, binding and extraction, which suggests that the two types of DP-internal subject should not be considered syntactically uniform. On the basis of these considerations, it is argued that such asymmetries can be explained in a revealing way under the minimal hypothesis that the Poss phrase is different from the Arg phrase in that the former is categorially a PP rather than a DP.
