Michel DeGraff: "light" verbs in English (reply to Carson Schutze)

[Martha McGinnis]

> There is an alternative, under which one can maintain that the Head
> Movement Constraint (or whatever underlies it) actually blocks all head
> movement across Neg in English, and what's special about 'be' and 'have'
> is that they can be inserted/generated above Neg. The only place I can
> recall seeing this pursued at all is in Ouhalla's work, including his
> 1991 book on functional categories. My question for the list is: why
> haven't more people followed this approach? Does it have some fatal flaw
> that Jamal (and I ) have not noticed?  [I would grant that he doesn't
> work out many details, including perhaps crucial ones, but my impression
> was that they could be worked out.]

Carson,

This is also the approach taken by Lasnik 1995 "Verbal morphology:
Syntactic Structures meets the Minimalist Program" (in Campos &
Kempchinsky, eds., reprinted in Lasnik 1999 book _Minimalist Analysis_)

                                  -michel.
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