User:129.2.211.72
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I also disagree with the representation of the NP as the specifier of the VP in this tree, since I learned as well that subjects belong in SpecIP, and that a complete sentence must be an IP or a CP, not a VP. However, could this representation simply be made by a proponent of the Verb-Internal-Subject Hypothesis, which implies that in fact the subject is generated in SpecVP and later moves to SpecIP? (I believe this hypothesis comes out of the Chomskyan notion that verbs and prepositions govern nouns, ergo the verb must govern the subject of the sentence (and its other arguments), and so it must be generated in SpecVP.)
- Well, that would be useful for explaining some phenomena that have been bugging me. Still, in a short encyclopedia article on X-bar theory, I think the simplest description would be the best. 129.2.211.72 18:32, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
