Conditionals, factives and the left periphery

In this paper, I discuss the relevance of the decomposition of CP for the syntax of adverbial clauses. I will show that conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses, such as if, while and since, may select a reduced CP, in which case such clauses lack main clause phenomena (MCP), or the conjunctions m...

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Published inLingua Vol. 116; no. 10; pp. 1651 - 1669
Main Author Haegeman, Liliane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.10.2006
Elsevier
Subjects
Adverbial clauses
Adverbials
Clauses
Complements
English
Factive predicates
Functional Heads
Humanities and Social Sciences
Japanese
Korean
Linguistics
Sentence Structure
Split CP
Subordination
Split CP
Factive predicates
Adverbial clauses
left periphery
périphérie gauche
prédicat factif
subordination adverbiale
factive predicates
réduction de structure
adverbial clauses
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ISSN0024-3841
1872-6135
DOI10.1016/j.lingua.2005.03.014

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Summary:In this paper, I discuss the relevance of the decomposition of CP for the syntax of adverbial clauses. I will show that conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses, such as if, while and since, may select a reduced CP, in which case such clauses lack main clause phenomena (MCP), or the conjunctions may select a full fledged CP, in which case the adverbial clauses are compatible with MCP. In the second part of the paper, I will argue that complements of factive predicates can also be shown to instantiate the reduced structures.
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ISSN:0024-3841
1872-6135
DOI:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.03.014