Allege-class verbs superficially take V-NP-to infinitive complements like Exceptional Case Marking (henceforth, ECM)-, want-, and persuade-type verbs, featuring curious patterns which cannot be included in any of these three verb types. What is curious is that the allege-type verbs allow, as ECM verbs do, the expletive there, pronouns it/him, wh-traces and NP-traces for their infinitival subjects while, unlike ECM-verbs, excluding lexical NPs. The purpose of this article is to highlight the behavioral characteristics of the post-verb NP position of allege-type verbs in light of Chomsky s (1998, 1999) recent phase-bound derivation theory and compare their behaviors, which may be characterized as bizarre, with those of French/Italian ECM verbs.
1. Introduction
2. Chomsky s (1998, 1999) Phase-bound Derivation
3. An Approach to allege-class Verbs
4. Conclusion
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