The Constraints and Consequences of Possessor Extraction in English
Colin Davis
October 2019
 

Published in Linguistic Inquiry 52 as "Possessor Extraction in Colloquial English: Evidence for Successive Cyclicity and Cyclic Linearization". Abstract: I analyze possessor extraction (PE) in English, a restricted possibility in the colloquial language of some speakers. I argue that the complexities of this corner of English provide evidence for Cyclic Linearization (Fox & Pesetsky 2005, a.o.), which restricts English PE via its interaction with a PF condition on the Saxon genitive morpheme [’s] (Gavruseva & Thornton 2001) that possessor-extracting speakers can satisfy at the local phase level. These results imply the non-phasehood of DP, shed light on the derivation of that’s-relatives, reveal some general linearization constraints on stranding, and indicate the origination of expletive there in vP.
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Published in: 2021, Linguistic Inquiry 52 (published as early access in 2019)
keywords: posssessor extraction, linearization, pied-piping, stranding, syntax
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