This paper proposes a new analysis of so‐called ‘defective T’ (a postulate originally discussed in Chomsky 2000, 2001) and seeks a label‐based theoretical explanation of phenomena associated with the distribution of subjects in infinitival clauses. I argue that we do not need to postulate ‘defective T’ as an element of the lexicon. Following Chomsky’s (2013, 2015) labeling approach, which investigates only finite clauses, I argue here that the subject of infinitive‐to is pair‐merged structure <T, C> and the associated predicate forms an {XP, YP} structure, which is unlabelable. To attain labeling, the subject position ([spec, TP]) in the infinitival clause moves out and the label of the resulting structure is the amalgam <T, C>, which has no visible Spec (violating EPP). As a consequence, we eliminate the Merge‐over‐Move principle.

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本文提出了对所谓的“有缺陷的T”（一种最初在Chomsky 2000，2001中讨论的假设）的新分析，并寻求对与不定式从句中的主题分布相关的现象的基于标签的理论解释。我认为我们不需要将“缺陷T”假定为词典的一个元素。继乔姆斯基（2013年，2015年），标记方法，这只是调查有限条款，我认为这里infinitive-的主题，以是成对合并的结构<T，C>，并且关联的谓词形成{XP，YP}结构，该结构是不可标记的。为了获得标记，infinitival子句中的主题位置（[spec，TP]）移出，并且得到的结构的标记是汞合金<T，C>，它没有可见的Spec（违反EPP）。结果，我们消除了“移动合并”原则。