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Extended Projection Principle

SYNTAX: principle which extends the Projection Principle with the requirement that clauses have subjects (also see licensing). EXAMPLE: the EPP requires that sentence (i) has an expletive subject (to which no theta-role is assigned):

(i) it is raining

LIT. Chomsky, N. (1986a)
Chomsky, N. (1981)