TWO TYPES OF MAIN VERB INVERSION

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This paper presents hitherto unnoticed contrasts between Locative Inversion and Quotative Inversion relating to the realization of pronouns in tag questions, the distribution of post-nominal alone, and intervention effects induced by experiencer arguments. To account for these differences, I argue that Locative Inversion and Quotative Inversion are derived in different fashions. In the former, post-verbal DPs stay in their original position, with locative prepositional phrases occupying [Spec, TP]. On the other hand, post-verbal DPs in Quotative Inversion are moved ‘covertly’ to [Spec, TP]. I show that the possibility of ‘covert’ movement to [Spec, TP] arises as a consequence of the proposal that Number-features originate in T heads, whereas Person-features and Tense-features originate in C heads.

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