Extraction from Dative
4. Conclusions
In this paper I have discussed cases of subextraction from DPs introduced by the P a (a-DPs). These are either accusative or dative objects of psych verbs. The conclusions arrived at follow. First, since these a-DPs project into a KP whose head K in endowed with an EF in Spanish, material can be extracted out of these Experiencer objects. This K accounts for the functional properties of a. Secondly, some verbs allow for either a dative or accusative DP and in both cases subextraction is permitted. Cases of degrada-tion are explained if condidegrada-tions other than the presence of the funcdegrada-tional P a is taken into account. Two such conditions are specificity and D-Linking.
Funding Acknowledgement
The research I am presenting in this talk has been partly funded by the Research Project FFI2013-41509-P of the Spanish Government (MINECO) and by the Grant 2014/15/B/
HS2/00588 of the Polish National Science Centre (NCN).
Acknowledgements
I am very thankful to Henk van Riemsdijk, Antonio Fábregas, Andrew Radford, Rafael Marín, Francisco Ordóñez and Mercedes Tubino for insightful discussion which has helped me a lot. Versions of this paper have been presented at the II GETEGRA workshop on Nominals at the University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brasil) and in OLINCO 2016 (Olomouc, Czech Republic). I thank the audiences there for their helpful comments.
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