| Lemma | non-argument |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Chomsky (1993) |
| Titolo | Lectures on Government and Binding. The Pisa Lectures |
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| Citazioni | […] non-argument "it" (as in "it is certain that John will win") or existential "there" (as in "there are believed to be unicorns in the garden"), terms which assume no θ-role. Non-arguments include other non-NP categories as well as NPs that are non-referential: impersonal "it", existential "there", perhaps idiom chunks, and analogues in other languages. Since NP-trace transmits its θ-role (if any), I will take trace to be a non-argument if it is not a variable. The pronoun "it" can be a true argument ("it is on the table"), a quasi-argument ("it is raining"), or a non-argument ("it seems that John is here"). |