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Subcategorization inheritance in Old English P-V compounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

HYEREE KIM
HYEREE KIM
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Author's address: Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University, Sillim-dong, Kwanak-ku, Seoul, Korea. E-mail: [email protected] The Ohio State University
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Abstract

This article deals with the relation between subcategorization and the notion head in OE [P-V] compounds. Many morphosyntactic properties such as category and morphological class percolate from the head to the mother. Subcategorization, however, can percolate to the mother from a nonhead as well as from the head. This is evident from the comparison of their case government properties. This paper shows that the process of ARGUMENT ATTRACTION developed within Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar permits a straightforward account of this phenomenon.

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Research Article
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 39 - 66
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

A preliminary version of part of this paper was presented in LSA annual meeting in 1993. Since then this paper has been much improved thanks to all those who have given me advice. I would like to thank especially Brian Joseph who has given me insightful comments and constant encouragement since the beginning of this paper. I am also grateful to Chan Chung, Robert Kasper, Carl Pollard, Arnold Zwicky, and the anonymous referees for the Journal of Linguistics for their comments and criticisms. However, all mistakes in this paper are mine.