8:14 how does "John" get theta role in the voiceP when the locality condition says roles can be assigned only in the projection where they are generated i.e. the VP?
The claim of the VoiceP hypothesis is that agents aren’t assigned by the verb but by the active Voice head. Indeed that’s what it means to be active: having an agent or causer. By contrast the passive voice explicitly lacks the agent/causer. So the theta role is assigned within the VoiceP because Voice, not V assigns the theta role
8:14 how does "John" get theta role in the voiceP when the locality condition says roles can be assigned only in the projection where they are generated i.e. the VP?
The claim of the VoiceP hypothesis is that agents aren’t assigned by the verb but by the active Voice head. Indeed that’s what it means to be active: having an agent or causer. By contrast the passive voice explicitly lacks the agent/causer. So the theta role is assigned within the VoiceP because Voice, not V assigns the theta role
PS this is made explicit in the theta grids for active and passive voice. See page 338 of the book.
@@CarnieSyntaxthEdition thank you for the response, sir.