In PE the occurrence of infinitival clauses with a lexical subject which are not introduced by the complementizer
for is restricted to the complement position of such a verb as
believe, In ME, however, this type of infinitival clauses was allowed to occur in various contexts, as observed by Koma (1982) and Arimura (1982). In this paper I will attempt to classify them into some types and show how Case was assigned to the lexical subject of such infinitival clauses, making the following two points. (i)
To contained in such infinitival clauses can be analyzed as INFL with the feature [ Tense, + AG], like
-ing of NP
-ing constructions in PE. (ii) The
to, like
-ing of NP
-ing constructions in PE, assigned Case to its subject in the following ways: (a) if [NP
to VP] is governed by a Case assigner,
to is assigned the Cas e which the governor assigns, and transmits it to the subject; (b) if [NP
to VP] is ungoverned,
to assigns nominative Case. In the last section, I will refer to two facts about the introduction of the complementizer
for.
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