This book demonstrates that greedy movement in Japanese fulfills locality and is triggered by checking formal features including theta roles: the Spec of TP and an uninterpretable ]V] feature enable successive cyclic verb raising that produces a complex verb (Multiple Predicate Formation). The interaction of feature checking and MPF yields nonobligatory controlled PRO, the long distance of A-movement in control constructions, the three types of passives, the semantic difference between coercive and noncoercive causatives, and the constraints on forming passives in double object...
This book demonstrates that greedy movement in Japanese fulfills locality and is triggered by checking formal features including theta roles: the S...
