PP 주어 연결동사구문의 구조분석

An Analysis of Subject PP Structure with Copular be

The purpose of this paper is to find out the underlying structure of such a construction as [PP be NP]. In the literature, PP in this structure is positioned in the specifier position of TP, and apparently it stays in the subject position in the surface structure. However, it has not been researched whether it is in the specifier position of TP in deep-structure and plays a role as a subject. Den Dikken(2006) claimed that equative copular has the same structure as inversed specificational copular through the two tests: obligatoriness of a copular under consider and severe restrictions on A’ extraction. In this paper, I argue that the structure [PP be NP] patterns with the inversed specificational copular, utilizing those two tests, and that PP in the initial position of copular is not only the surface subject but also the underlying subject.