TY - JOUR
T1 - External arguments and the Mirror Principle
T2 - On the distinctness of Voice and v
AU - Harley, Heidi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work would not have been possible without the help of Maria and Santos Leyva, who willingly share their knowledge of Hiaki with me, and who laugh, rather than frown, when I venture into iffy grammatical, pragmatic and cultural waters. I also would like to thank Jason Haugen and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco, who participated in the elicitation sessions connected with this paper and provided valuable feedback, and audiences at the University of Arizona, GLOW 2007 at the University of Trømso, MIT, Cornell and UCLA, who also provided very helpful feedback. Thanks also to Dalina Kalluli, Peter Hallman and the participants of the Voice 2010 workshop at the University of Vienna, who also provided valuable feedback and without whom this paper might never have gotten written. Three Lingua reviewers also provided extremely helpful feedback. The research reported in this paper was supported by NSF award BCS-0446333.
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - Evidence from the Uto-Aztecan language Hiaki (Yaqui) shows that the internal structure of the verb phrase is tripartite, made up of (at least) VoiceP, vP and a lexical projection (√P or VP). The interaction of applicative and causative morphology, the existence of two kinds of causatives, and the interaction of passive and verbalizing morphology show that the external-argument introducing projection VoiceP (Kratzer, 1996) must be distinct from the verbalizing head vP (Marantz, 1997), as first proposed by Pylkkänen (2002) and subsequently by Cuervo (2003), Collins (2005), Alexiadou et al. (2006), Merchant (2008) and Harley (2009), among many others. This result stands in opposition to earlier proposals in which a single projection, vP, serves both to verbalize and to introduce the external argument, as in Chomsky (1995), Marantz (1997), and Harley (1995). It also challenges the conclusions of Coon and Preminger (2010), who give explicit arguments for the identity of external-argument-introducing Voice and verbalizing v.
AB - Evidence from the Uto-Aztecan language Hiaki (Yaqui) shows that the internal structure of the verb phrase is tripartite, made up of (at least) VoiceP, vP and a lexical projection (√P or VP). The interaction of applicative and causative morphology, the existence of two kinds of causatives, and the interaction of passive and verbalizing morphology show that the external-argument introducing projection VoiceP (Kratzer, 1996) must be distinct from the verbalizing head vP (Marantz, 1997), as first proposed by Pylkkänen (2002) and subsequently by Cuervo (2003), Collins (2005), Alexiadou et al. (2006), Merchant (2008) and Harley (2009), among many others. This result stands in opposition to earlier proposals in which a single projection, vP, serves both to verbalize and to introduce the external argument, as in Chomsky (1995), Marantz (1997), and Harley (1995). It also challenges the conclusions of Coon and Preminger (2010), who give explicit arguments for the identity of external-argument-introducing Voice and verbalizing v.
KW - A-movement
KW - Applicative
KW - Causative
KW - Passive
KW - Verb phrase
KW - Yaqui
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U2 - 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.09.010
DO - 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.09.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866129631
SN - 0024-3841
VL - 125
SP - 34
EP - 57
JO - Lingua
JF - Lingua
IS - 1
ER -