%0 Journal Article
%T AGAINST ¡°PURE¡± EPP CHECKING: EVIDENCE FROM FURTHER-RAISING
%A Gerardo Fern¨¢ndez-Salgueiro
%J Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
%D 2011
%I Crane Publishing Co
%X In this paper I attempt to throw some light on the issue of whether we need to appeal to an EPP feature (EPP-F) in order to account for why Tense heads demand that a specifier be created. I briefly review Bo kovi ¡¯s (2002) proposal that there is no ¡°pure¡± EPP checking, and that instances of DP movement to Spec-Tense can be motivated independently of an EPP-F in Tense. I argue that there are some problems with his conclusion because of confounding factors surrounding the data that he considers. I then provide data from Spanish further-raising constructions (see Fern¨¢ndez-Salgueiro, 2011), which constitute a much clearer test bed for Bo kovi ¡¯s hypothesis. It turns out that the further-raising data provides stronger and less controversial empirical support for Bo kovi ¡¯s claim that the EPP-F should be eliminated from the grammar.
%K EPP
%K further-raising
%K Case
%K A-Movement
%U http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume9-1/9.1-4Gerardo.pdf