Projection, Heads, and Optimality  

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Grimshaw, Jane

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 28 no. 3 (1997), page 373-422.
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This article argues that inversion of the subject and auxiliary in English matrix questions and elsewhere is the effect of a violable optimaIitytheoretic constraint that requires head positions to be filled. When no other auxiliary is available, do-support occurs to satisfy this constraint, resulting in the presence of an expletive verb. When a higher-ranked constraint prohibits inversion, no inversion or do-support is found. The argument is then extended to cases where the complementizer that is obligatory, which are shown to offer best satisfaction of the proposed set of violable constraints.

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