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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Government''' is a structural relation between a [[governor]] (a head or maximal projection) and a [[governee]]. Government is usually considered to be a necessary condition for [[case-marking]] and for [[proper government]] (see [[ECP]]). A range of near-identical definitions have been proposed, with slightly different empirical predictions in these and other areas. (i) is a typical example of such a definition.<br />
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(i) alpha governs beta iff alpha [[c-command]]s beta<br />
and there is no [[barrier]] for beta that [[exclude]]s alpha<br />
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The core case of government is the relation between a head and its complement; this case is captured by every existing definition. Thus, in (ii),<br />
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(ii) XP<br />
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X'<br />
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X YP<br />
/ |<br />
ZP Y'<br />
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Y WP<br />
/ |<br />
UP W'<br />
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W<br />
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X governs its [[complement]] YP, hence can case-mark it (if X is a case-assigning head) and properly govern it (if X is a lexical head). Depending on the definition of barrier, X may or may not govern ZP (with possible consequences for the treatment of [[Exceptional Case Marking]]). The definition of government will usually exclude X governing UP (allowing UP to be an (ungoverned) [[PRO]] subject), but sometimes allows ZP to govern UP (allowing ZP to properly govern UP, if they are coindexed). The c-command (sometimes m-command) clause prevents W from governing ZP, with consequences for the proper government of subjects.<br />
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=== Link ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Government&lemmacode=732 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Aoun, Y. &amp; D. Sportiche 1983. ''On the formal theory of Government,'' The Linguistic Review 2/3, pp. 211-236<br />
* Chomsky, N. 1986b. ''Barriers,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.<br />
* Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.<br />
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