Basic English Syntax with Exercises

Suggested answer for Exercise 4

Raising + wh-movement

In this sentence wh-movement and raising are combined. The verb appear is also a raising verb selecting a clausal complement. The subject of the embedded infinitival clause is not assigned Case so it moves to the specifier position of the IP of the finite clause. Since it is an instance of subject questions the question word has to move on to the Spec,CP position. The verb appears can also undergo movement to C, it will not precede the subject. The verb adore in the embedded clause selects an experiencer subject which can appear in the specifier position of a light verb, which is a bound morpheme inducing movement of the lexical verb adore. The second vP in the embedded clause hosts the tense morpheme, infinitival to.