抄録
This paper claims that English adjectives, which have been considered to have no ability to assign Case, have a Case assigning ability just like adjectives in morphologically Case marked languages. It is argued that AP and VP exhibit some parallelisms, which indicates the internal phenomena of the two must be accounted for uniformly. If the observed VP-internal phenomena can be attributed to a Case assigning feature of the transitive verbs, it is naturally concluded that the adjectives have a Case assigning feature to be checked off and hence they have a Case assigning ability. This claim consequently leads us to certain revisions of the [±N] distinction for Case assigning ability, the of-insertion rule, and licensing of inherent Case.
