THETA-MARKING VIA AGREE

KENSHI FUNAKOSHI
2009 English Linguistics  
This paper investigates the mechanism of θ-marking. Given the feature approach to θ-marking that states that θ-marking is performed by the general mechanism of feature checking, I will propose that θ-marking takes place via Agree, and provide conceptual and empirical arguments in favor of this view of θ-marking, based on data from control constructions in English and Japanese that indicate that a controller is θ-marked in the embedded [Spec, C] (precisely, [Spec, Fin]) by a matrix predicate.*
doi:10.9793/elsj.26.1_1 fatcat:pmeeo6y7rjhmvdb64eu3dnzdwu