On the Distribution of Null Complementizers  

Oleh:

Boskovic, Zeljko ; Lasnik, Howard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 34 no. 4 (2003), page 527-546.
Topik: adjacency; affix hopping; government; null comple- mentizer; PF/Morphological Merger; subject/object asymmetries
Fulltext: vol 34 no 4 pp 527-546.pdf (2.48MB)

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The article provides a comprehensive account of the distribution of the null complementizer in English that does not appeal to the notion of government, thus contributing to the minimalist goal of eliminating arbitrary relations such as government. The account is based on Peset- sky's (1992) proposal that the null complementizer is a PF affix, which we instantiate through the affix-hopping approach to affixation. We also provide an account of several subject/object asymmetries with respect to extraction out of various clausal arguments

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