The paper discusses a number of problems in connection with Chomsky's S ̄-deletion approach to the analysis of 'exceptional Case-marking' verbs such as believe, and proposes a new approach to the effect that English contains a ø complementizer that ...
The paper discusses a number of problems in connection with Chomsky's S ̄-deletion approach to the analysis of 'exceptional Case-marking' verbs such as believe, and proposes a new approach to the effect that English contains a ø complementizer that can govern and assign Case, unlike Kayne's (1981) ø complementizer, and that a verb may subcategorize a non-argument as its complements, contradicting Chomsky's claim, "Compliments of X ̄ are always θ-positions." The new approach is proved to meet requirements of the principles in the GB theory : the θ-criterion, the Case Filter, the Projection Principle and the Binding theory.