The Extended Projection Principle as a Condition on the Tense Dependency
Ian G. Roberts, Anna Roussou · 2002
Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to provide a unified account of two seemingly unrelated phenomena: what we call the ‘subject requirement,’ which corresponds to the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) of Chomsky 1982, 1995, and the ‘V2 requirement.’ We argue that they both reduce to properties of T, and, arguably, to a single property of T in connection to the position where T is spelled out. In particular, the ‘subject requirement’ arises when Tis realized in the IP domain, while the ‘V2 requirement’ arises when T is spelled out in the CP domain.