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This paper argues that the syntactic behavior of expletive it can be accounted for, in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), especially by the operation Copy and Merge. I adopt Hazout's (2004) theory about the generation of expletives and Nunes's (2001) minimalist technique, so called sideward movement. Focusing on expletive it in the psych verb construction, I show how to explain the occurrence of expletive it in the θ-marked position. I also discuss agreement and numeration issues in the Minimalist framework with respect to expletive it.
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Previous Studies
3. Proposal
4. Consequences
5. Concluding Remarks
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