ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to propose a unified analysis of a range of “second-position” phenomena that have been attested in various languages, and in so doing to motivate a more elaborated theory of Nominative Case assignment. Because our focus is on the interaction of clause structure with structural Case assignment, the authors concentrate almost exclusively on the processes and properties of S-structure. It is a classic tenet of generative grammar that inflectional affixes may be separate syntactic entities at pre-phonological levels of representation; see the analysis of the English auxiliary system in Chomsky. At the turn of the 1990s, this idea received new impetus, beginning with Pollock. Finally, the appendix is devoted to the discussion of Stylistic Fronting. The authors also added a postscript to this version of the paper, explaining its rather unusual and protracted prepublication history.
