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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Projection Principle''' is a principle which says that<br /> <br /> # representations at each level of representation are [[projection]]s of the [[feature]]s of [[lexical item]]s, notably their [[subcategorization]] features, and that <br /> # if F is a lexical feature, it is projected at each syntactic level of representation ([[D-structure]], [[S-structure]], [[Logical Form]]).<br /> <br /> The Projection Principle entails that sentence (i) cannot have the structure in (ii).<br /> <br /> (i) I believe him to be a fool<br /> (ii) I believe [&lt;sub&gt;NP&lt;/sub&gt; him] [&lt;sub&gt;S&lt;/sub&gt; to be a fool]<br /> <br /> The [[NP]] ''him'' is the [[subject]] of the embedded sentence at the level of D-structure, so it has to be analyzed as its subject at all syntactic levels of representation, even though it has objective case. See also [[Extended Projection Principle]].<br /> <br /> === Links ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Projection+Principle&amp;lemmacode=445 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.<br /> * Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Syntax]]<br /> {{stub}}</div>

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