EPP 효과의 재조명

The EPP-effect Revisited

This paper concerns what is called the EPP-effect, which Chomsky(2000, 2001) assumes to be ‘XP-movement’ forced by the EPP-feature rather than Agree-feature. In this paper, I argue that there is no such EPP-effect that gives rise to no ‘edge-effect’, which is assumed to satisfy the semantic multiplicity required by the C-I system. Accordingly, I suggest a new proposal in which the edge effect triggers the EPP-effect. The edge effect is also justified, in this paper, by various empirical data. In addition, it is proved that A- and A’-movement both apply in one fell swoop rather than successive-cyclic under my new proposal. Consequently, it comes to light that the movement operation triggered by the edge-effect is rather a kind of costless property of human languages, since it is one of the operations required by the C-I system.