抄録
This paper aims to discuss the properties of locative/directional inversion (LI) and one subtype of there-construction, namely the Outside Verbal Existential construction (OVE), and to show that the multiple subject analysis of LI and OVE fails to capture all the relevant properties of LI and OVE. Through discussion it will be shown that the VP shell analysis for unaccusative verbs, which is proposed by Radford (1997) and Nishihara (1999), and the specification of P-feature and Topic feature in the finite clauses can provide accounts for the properties of LI and some types of there-construction.
