Abstract
According to the VP-internal subject hypothesis, proposed by Fukui and Speas (1986), Kuroda (1988), Koopman and Sportiche (1985), and Kitagawa (1986), among others, the subject of a finite sentence is generated within VP and is raised to the IP Spec position at S-structure to have its Case checked. Fukui and Speas (1986), Abney (1986), and Kuroda (1988) propose a parallel analysis for the subject of NP: it is generated within NP and is moved to DP Spec. The S-structures of (1a-b), then, are as in (2a-b), respectively.1
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Saito, M., Murasugi, K. (1999). Subject Predication within IP and DP. In: Johnson, K., Roberts, I. (eds) Beyond Principles and Parameters. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4822-1_7
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