Abstract
The gerundive construction with an Accusative subject in English displays properties of clauses, though its distribution is limited to a Case position, similar to noun phrases. This paper explores the idea that it has a CP structure but its tense head is somewhat ‘defective,’ demonstrating that its idiosyncratic behaviors are fully attributed to the internal structure. In identifying its structure, I will argue against the mechanism of Feature Inheritance and maintain a strict cyclic derivation in a bottom-up fashion, where each syntactic object inherently has its own features. The analysis will also keep to the primary concepts of Chomsky’s (2015) labeling algorithm, enabling us to capture a wide variety of phenomena.
