Abstract
Explores whether verb & subject raising from the verbal (VP) to the inflectional (IP) domain is optional or obligatory in Modern Hebrew, carried out through a comparison of Hagit Borer (1995) & Ur Shlonsky (1997), who argue, respectively, that such raising is optional vs obligatory. It is argued here that it is Shlonsky's assumption of obligatory raising that correct. This view is motivated by data, much of it presented by Shlonsky, involving combinations of SVO & "triggered" VSO word order, simple & "compound" verb sequences, &, in compound tense, unmarked vs inverted ("copula inversion") copula-verb order. Modifications are then presented to allow a system such as that of Shlonsky with obligatory raising to accommodate the data that Borer took to indicate a nonraised verb &/or subject. 14 References. Adapted from the source document