Preface to I-Subjects (and an overview of the parametric model in Borer 1983)
Hagit Borer
May 2017 

'I-Subjects' was originally published in Linguistic Inquiry in 1986. A lightly edited version will be republished in (2018) by Linguistic Analysis accompanied by this preface. The preface serves to give the original article its historical contexts, and to highlight the way in which both the questions posed and the solutions offered remain contemporary, bearing, in particular, on the relationship of Agree. In the past two decades I have, personally, come across multiple (mis)representations of the approach to parameters which I first outlined in Borer (1983). This preface provides a summary of that model in the context of the theoretical proposal in 'I-Subjects'.

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Published in:	Linguistic Analysis
keywords:	parameters; epp, nominative case; post-verbal subjects; i-subject; the borer-chomsky conjecture, syntax
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