Cognate Objects and the Case

Cognate object constructions are constructions in which a normally intransitive verb occurs with what appears to be a direct object NP whose head noun is the event or state nominalization of the verb. Since cognate objects are, in general, preceded by intransitive verbs, it is difficult to deal with them with respect to the Case under the Government and Binding framework presented in Chomsky (1981). Note that the Objective Case is assigned by transitive verbs in this framework. Therefore, both cognate objects and adverbial NPs cannot be assigned Case without revising the Case-filter discussed in Chomsky (1981). However, these problems can be solved by my revised Case-filter analysis based on ellipsis, without undermining this framework greatly. This analysis can solve problems related to both cognate objects and adverbial NPs relatively well.