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Spanning complement-taking verbs and spanning complementizers: On the realization of presuppositional clauses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2022

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MIKHAIL KNYAZEV*
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Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tuchkov Pereulok 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russiamisha.knjazev@gmail.com
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Abstract

The paper presents an account of the (non-)realization of the DP shell in presuppositional clauses within a system where such clauses are uniformly DPs. It is argued that the DP shell is realized by a spanning verb (in languages like Russian) or a spanning complementizer (in languages like English). The analysis is extended to account for the distribution of complementizer drop.

Keywords

presuppositional clausescomplementizer dropDP shellRussianspanning
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , November 2022 , pp. 887 - 899
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I thank the members of the Laboratory of Formal Models in Linguistics at HSE, as well as three anonymous Journal of Linguistics reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. Financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (the research project 075-15-2020-793) is gratefully acknowledged.

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