Ellipsis of the English Complementizer that

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 이정식(Jeong-Shik Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제42호, 1~27쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.01

영문 초록

This paper offers a simple novel approach to the distributions of the declarative Comp that and its null counterpart, the null C, in English. It suggests that the overt Comp that is a PF realization of the null C and that the null C must be adjacent to the embedded subject as well as to the matrix predicate. Behind this suggestion lies a core idea--agreement appears on C, thereby agreeing with the subject; when the subject is extracted through Spec of CP, the agreement is suppressed and thus agreement emergence as that fails to be obtained. This approach will be shown to account for many intriguing contrasts in the CP area, for example, different distributions between the Comp that and the null C, (anti-)that-trace effects, the null C without adjacency.

목차

1. Introduction: limits of previous approaches

2. The Comp that as a PF realization of the null C

3. That-trace effects

4. Null C without adjacency

5. Anti-that-trace effects

6. Simple wh-questions

7. Relative clauses: anti-that-trace effects

8. Conclusion

키워드

Null C Comp that adjacency subject/non-subject asymmetry (anti-)that-trace effects agreement on C suppression of agreement