Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. Vol. 1. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 24)

Péter Antonyi: Phrasal verbs: an attempt at a syntactic account

as the 'recipient'. Since his conditions for V' reanalysis hold, he adopts the latter perspective on these transformations and renames 'Heavy NP Shift' as 'Light (complex) Predicate Raising' (Larson 1988:347). Larson's point about the optionality of V' reanalysis can be disputed from a certain angle. Sentence (16) may be considered grammatical, but only on condition that the pronominal ('him') and the R-expression ('Jim') are NOT coreferential, otherwise we violate the relevant parts of the Binding Principle (see 2.1). This constraint, however, does not apply to (15) [on the surface it reads as (14)], that is, the NPs mentioned above may well be coreferential. It is a rather serious discrepancy that obviously weakens the validity of the optional status (vs obligatory application) of the V' reanalysis rule with complex NPs (they are the 'heaviest' kind of NPs, as in the example). (16) *I [vp gave [NP everything that I owed himi] [y [v t

] to Jim;]] ' The 2 arrows indicate that either one or the other movement may take place, optionally. 100