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A Minimalist Analysis of Participial Constructions. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 164
This book proposes that past participial
constructions are the expressed complement of vP/CP
phases (Chomsky 2001, 2005). If correct, this calls
for a minimalist reanalysis of non-finite structures
as phases, given the possibility to end a derivation
at intermediate Spell-Outs. The analysis is based on
an extensive survey of participial constructions
across languages and historical periods extracted
from diachronic and contemporary corpora as well as
the specialized literature. Participial
constructions present exceptional characteristics.
Absolute participials test for unaccusativity, as
they ban unergative verbs (Perlmutter 1978, Rosen
1983, Belletti 1990). Participial relatives also
share this peculiarity (Williams 1975, Burzio 1986,
Levin
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