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1 online resource (157 pages) |
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Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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Cover; Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Category of That-less clauses; 1. Clause Structure; 2. A Question; 2.1. An Answer: the CP-Hypothesis; 2.2. An Answer: the IP-Hypothesis; 3. Outline of the Work; Notes; Chapter 2 Argument Clauses; 1. Introduction; 2. Arguments for the IP-Hypothesis; 2.1. Embedded Topicalization; 2.2. Adverbial Adjunction; 2.3. Adjunction Evidence: Summary; 3. The ECP Account of the Distribution of That-less Clauses; 3.1. The Government Requirement |
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3.2. Explaining the Government Requirement3.2.1. C0 to V0 Incorporation; 3.2.2. Head Government at Phonological Form; 3.2.3. Conclusion; 3.3. Empirical Problems; 3.3.1. Embedded Sentential Subjects; 3.3.2. Ungoverned Null Complementizers; 3.4. Summary; 4. Explaining the Distribution of IP; 4.1. Previous Accounts: Webelhuth 1992; 4.2. A Proposal; 5. Chapter Summary; 6. Appendix: Lexical Restrictions; 6.1. Paradox: Selected Adjunct Clauses; 6.2. A Resolution; 6.3. Noun Complement Clauses; Notes; Chapter 3 Relative Clauses; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Syntactic Properties of Contact Clauses |
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1.2. Restrictive Relative Clauses: Assumptions2. The Structure of Contact Clauses; 2.1. Contact Clauses are IP; 2.2. The A'-Chain in Contact Clauses; 2.2.1. The Null Operator Approach; 2.2.2. Proposal: A '-Chains without Movement; 2.3. The Adjacency Restriction; 2.4. Summary; 3. Subject Contact Clauses; 3.1. Distribution: The Majority Dialect; 3.2. Subject Contact Clauses as non-Relative Clauses; 3.2.1. Independent Evidence for the Pseudo-Relative; 3.2.2. Subject Contact Clauses as Pseudo-Relatives; 3.3. Subject Contact Clauses are Relative Clauses; 3.4. Distribution: Liberal Dialects |
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3.5. Summary4. Explaining the Distribution of Subject Contact Clauses; 4.1. Previous Accounts; 4.1.1. Pragmatic Accounts; 4.1.2. Non-Referentiality; 4.2. The Distribution of Post-Nominal Modifiers; 5. Chapter Summary; Notes; Chapter 4 Extraction Theory; 1. Introduction; 2. The That-Trace Effect; 3. Previous Accounts; 3.1. Locality; 3.1.1. Locality as Binding; 3.1.2. Locality as Antecedent Government; 3.2. The Head-Government Account; 3.2.1. Agreement in Comp; 3.2.2. Advantages of the Account; 3.2.3. Some difficulties; 4. Implications for Head-Government |
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4.1. Null Complementizers are Inert for Government4.2. Vacuous Movement; 5. Chapter Summary; Notes; Chapter 5 Concluding Remarks; 1. Introduction; 2. Distribution of Non-Root IP; 3. Extension to Bare Infinitives; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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9781135714147 |
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1135714142 |
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