공범주원리의 부활

The Revival of Empty Category Principle

The Empty Category Principle is comprised of antecedent govern and lexical govern and judges the grammaticality of sentences on the basis of whether or not traces are properly governed. In the minimalist theory, the Empty Category Principle has been discarded because it depends on the notion of barrier, which is a theory-internal concept. This article, however, shows that locality conditions such as subjacency condition, minimal link condition, and phase impenetrability conditions have empirical problems and these problems are solved with the Empty Category Principle. Therefore the Empty Category will be shown to be empirically necessary conditions in the minimalist theory as well.