How to introduce instrumental agents: Evidence from binding in Russian event nominal phrases

The aim of this paper is to argue that instrumental agents in Russian are introduced by a silent P through binding phenomena by instrumental agents in event nominal phrases. Two assumptions are adopted in this paper: one is the absence of the DP layer in Russian based on binding phenomena and the other is a particular structure of event nominal phrases. I show that the appropriateness of proposing a silent P is supported by Generalized Case Realization Requirement in Russian and that the silent P is a lexical preposition, not a functional one due to its ability to bind objects out of PP.