Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International ... - STIBA Malang

122 Tomohiro Yanagi
general assumption of subject movement, subjects cannot move to a postverbal
position unless they are base-generated postverbally. As mentioned above, OE is
an OV language, and subjects of unaccusative verbs like gan “go” are assumed to
be base-generated before the verbs. Thus, it could be assumed that the quantifier
eall in (27e) is associated with the secondary predicate gewæpnode “armed”. The
structure of (27e) would be (30).
(30) hii ða [ VP t i eodon ] [ VP [ QP ealle PRO i ] gewæpnode ]
Now let us turn to the accusative floating quantifier. The relevant examples are
repeated here in (31).
(31) accusative floating quantifier
a. god hi gesceop ealle gode.
God them created all good
“God created them all good” (ÆCHom I 179.27)
b. 7 crist hi gebrincð ealle to anre eowde, on ðam ecan life;
and Christ them brings all to one fold in the eternal life
“and Christ will bring them all to one fold in eternal life”
(ÆCHom I 316.86)
c. Hwa mæg æfre. ealle gereccan. þa mihtigan tacna. ðises
who may ever all relate the mighty miracles of this
halgan weres.
holy man
“Who may ever relate all the mighty miracles of this holy man?”
(ÆCHom II 90.304)
d. and his æhta him ealle forgeald be twyfealdum;
and his possessions him all repaid by twofold
“and repaid him all his possessions by twofold” (ÆCHom II 266.198)
In (31a) and (31b) the accusative quantifier follows the finite verbs gesceop “created”
and gebrincð “brings”, respectively. What is important here is that the quantifier is
followed by the predicative complements, just like the PDE examples in (6). In
(31c), the quantifier precedes the non-finite verb gereccan “relate”. Since an object
is base-generated before a verb, it can be assumed that the object moves rightward
and is adjoined to the VP. This movement does not violate the conditions in (22):
VP is not an argument. In contrast, sentence (31d) involves leftward movement of
the object. If the target of this operation were QP in the theta position, the sentence
would be ruled out. However, the presence of the pronoun between the quantifier
and the moved element indicates that the object his æhta “his possessions” is not
adjoined to the QP, but to a higher projection.