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ECM Constructions as Complex Predicates: A Neo-constructivist Approach
Aliaksei Akimenka
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Abstract

This paper is an attempt to revive Chomsky's LSLT (1955/1975) complex predicate approach to ECM under the neo-constructivist model of syntax (Sybesma 1992, Borer 2005, Åfarli 2007, Ramchand 2008, Lohndal 2014, inter alia). The analysis proposed in this paper assumes that ECM constructions "share" the same syntactic template/frame with resultatives and argues that the ECM verb and the infinitival predicate form a complex verbal constituent in the LF component as a side-effect of the independently motivated head movement. One important consequence of this account of ECM is that it makes no reference to any principle motivating (either covert or overt) Object Shift in ECM configurations: on the analysis developed here, the A-movement of the infinitival subject to the matrix clause is an instance of movement "through the wormhole" — a result of the "reassociation" process that accompanies the postulated head movement (Stepanov 2012, Müller 2017).

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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