What is that?

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Published: Oct 24, 2018
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syntax, minimalism, optionality

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Steven Franks

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This paper develops an account of the correlation between optionality of complementizer that and the possibility of extraction from the complement clause to a bridge verb. This is accomplished by exploiting the possibility, left open in Minimalism, of both LF insertion of phonetically silent material and PF insertion of semantically vacuous material. It is argued that bridge verbs may take bare TP complements, whereas non-bridge verbs must take CP complements. Since optional that is only arises postsyntactically, it is expected to have no effects on the overt syntax or on LF. Various additional data, from intonational phrasing, topicalization, scope freezing, and distributor each interpretation, are adduced to argue that when that optionally introduces a complement clause it is in fact a bare TP.

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2005): Syntax and Beyond
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