A Principled Explanation of the Believe-Type Verb Infinitival Complement Constructions

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to present a principled explanation for the believe (B)- type verb infinitival complement constructions. For this, the embedded CP- deletion adopted from the ECM account (Chomsky 1981) and the overt raising-to-VP-Spec of the matrix sentence from LA-based (Chomsky 2014) and MERGE-based approach (Chomsky 2019, 2020, 2021a, 2021b) are posited on the ground of the property of the B-type verb (cf. Bach 1977; cf. Carnie 2002), Chomsky's Agree-upon (1998, 1999, 2001) EF (2005, 2006, 2008), Chomsky’s (2013, 2014) movement of LA and Chomsky’s (2013) Inheritance- IM (cf. Kim 2018a, 2018b, 2021). This postulation operated in the workspace (WS) (Chomsky 2019, 2020, 2021a, 2021b) based on the tripartite prolific domain (Grohmann 2003), (strong) Phase (Chomsky 1999, 2001) and Phase higher evaluation (Chomsky 1999) considers the complete and defective property of the post-verbal NP. Hence, the controversies of the post-verbal NP are solved. Besides, the challenges like the Projection Principle, the θ-criterion, and the placement problem of the matrix B-verb are no longer problematic.