The Silence of Heads
On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be tak...
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doaj-52d5cb22e0bc49e8925d8890a827b1992021-09-05T14:00:26ZengSciendoStudies in Chinese Linguistics1017-12742016-06-0137113710.1515/scl-2016-0001scl-2016-0001The Silence of HeadsKayne Richard S.0Department of Linguistics, New York University, 10 Washington Place #403, New York, NY 10003, USAOn the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be taken to be silent than is usually thought. I then argue that this state of affairs ultimately reflects the fact that every projecting head is silent.https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0001complementizer sentence-final particle silence tense feature |
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On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles,
need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated
particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads
in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be taken to be silent than is
usually thought. I then argue that this state of affairs ultimately reflects the fact
that every projecting head is silent. |
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