Disappearing features?
I was just reminded over email about a slide in the last handout (where we covered case checking) where, in the tree for the sentence “She likes them”, the verb likes was drawn with just a [V] feature indicating that it is a verb, but without the [uN*] feature that usually accompanies it on transitive verbs.
Take no notice of the fact that the [uN*] feature is missing. In general, I may sometimes omit features that aren’t directly relevant to the point at hand, but you shouldn’t take this as an affirmative claim that in that sentence the verb lacks a [uN*] feature (to c-select the Theme), it’s just that I only wrote down the features that seemed relevant at the time. If written in full detail, it would have had the [uN*] feature as usual, since that was the reason that the Theme NP was Merged with the verb in the first place.