Two Notes on Possible Approaches to the Unification of Theta Relations
SynSem will feature a presentation by Jae-Young Shim and Sam Epstein. The title and abstract of their presentation are given below.
Two Notes on Possible Approaches to the Unification of Theta Relations
At least as early as Chomsky (1981) an interesting problem was revealed and placed on the research agenda, that is, the problem of a non-unified theory of theta relations. This problem persists in current minimalist analyses under which theta role to subject is assigned in Spec-Head relation, while theta role to object is assigned in Head-Complement relation. The purpose of this paper is to explore possible unifications of theta marking. Assuming that the only theta-marking configuration is Head-Complement, we present two different unified solutions to the asymmetry, one representational and the other derivational.
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Jae-Young Shim & Sam Epstein
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