Clauses Without 'That'
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1986a
A01=Cathal Doherty
Adverbial Adjunction
Antecedent Government
Author_Cathal Doherty
Bare Infinitives
Category=C
chomsky
Chomsky 1986a
Comp
complement
Complement Clauses
complementizers
constraints
contact
Contact Clauses
Degree Clause
distributional
ECM Construction
English clause structure
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
generative syntax
Hiberno-English linguistics
IP Complement
IP hypothesis in English syntax
Lexical Conceptual Structure
Lexical Government
Maximal Projection
Modified Noun Phrase
noun
Noun Complement Clauses
Null Complementizer
Null Structure
Overt Complementizers
phrase structure analysis
Post-nominal Modifiers
Postnominal Modifiers
Proper Governor
relative
relative clause extraction
Relative Clause Modifier
Relative Clauses
Subject Extraction
Subject Trace
syntactic theory
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- ISBN 9781138991392
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This Study investigates the syntax of complement and relative clauses in English which lack overt complementizers (clauses without that ). The central analytical claim is that these clauses differ in phrase structure from their synonymous counterparts with overt complementizers. In particular, novel evidence from adjunction facts is used to demonstrate that clauses without that are more appropriately analyzed as bare sentences of the category IP rather than CP with a phonologically null head, a proposal which has since been adopted in many economy-driven approaches to phrase structure. In addition to strong empirical support, the IP-analysis is shown to provide explanations for a variety of related syntactic phenomena, superior to those available under the previous CP-analysis. These include the restricted syntactic distribution of that -less complements, in addition to the adjacency restrictions on that -less relative clauses. The analytical task posed by the that -trace effect is also very much reduced under the IP-analysis. The work also examines the syntax of 'subject contact clauses' (e.g. There's a man wants to see you .), common in many non-standard varieties, including Hiberno-English and establishes that they have all the distinctive properties of other that -less relative clauses. This book will be of interest to a broad variety of readers: scholars working in all areas of generative syntax, specialists in English and Germanic syntax, in addition to researchers in non-standard English and Hiberno-English.
