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'''First Order Projection Condition''' is a condition proposed in Selkirk (1982) which says that

All non-SUBJ arguments of a lexical category Xi must be satisfied
within the first order projection of Xi (where the first order
projection of a category Xi is the category that immediately dominates
it, whether in word structure or in syntactic structure).

The FOPC is Selkirk's (1982) counterpart of Roeper & Siegel's (1978) [[First Sister Principle]] (FSP). The FOPC as well as the FSP are intended to account for (i) the relationship between ''he drives a truck'', ''truck driver'', and ''driver of trucks'', (ii) the difference in well-formedness between the compounds ''truck driver'', on the one hand, and *''quick driver'' (next to ''drive a truck quickly''), and *''child driver'' (next to ''a child drives a truck'') on the other. The FOPC and the FSP are not equivalent. The difference has to do with the data in (i)-(iii):

(i) eater of pasta in trees
(ii) * tree eater of pasta
(iii) * pasta eater in trees

The FOPC accounts for the ungrammaticality of both (ii) and (iii), since one of the non-SUBJ arguments of ''eat'' is not realized within its first order projection (= ''tree eater'' in (ii) and ''pasta eater'' in (iii)). The FSP has no explanation for the ungrammaticality of (iii).

=== Link ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=First+Order+Projection+Condition&lemmacode=748 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

=== References ===

* Roeper, T. and D. Siegel 1978. ''A Lexical Transformation for Verbal Compounds,'' Linguistic Inquiry 9, pp. 199-260
* Selkirk, E. O. 1982a. ''The Syntax of Words, MIT Press,'' Cambridge, Mass.
* Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.

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