Prepositions with CP and their implications for extended projections
| Autor: | Peter Svenonius |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Class (set theory) VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Nordic languages: 018 Computer science 05 social sciences VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::General linguistics and phonetics: 011 Norwegian VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 Part of speech 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics Lexical item VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018 Projection (mathematics) VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020 language VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011 Dependent clause 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Subcategorization Complement (linguistics) Food Science |
| Popis: | In some limited cases, English allows a particular preposition to combine with a certain kind of subordinate clause, as exemplified by in that in “I take the proposal seriously, in that I loathe it”. In contrast, Norwegian systematically allows prepositions to combine with subordinate clauses (as in Det resulterte i at vi vant, literally “It resulted in that we won”). I argue that the English case should be handled as the subcategorization for a certain complement class by a particular lexical entry, while the Norwegian case indicates that the extended projection of clauses can continue up to the preposition. This highlights an important difference between lexical selection and extended projection, revealing a hitherto underappreciated source of parametric variation, and sheds light on several properties of extended projections as well as of prepositions. Specifically, the extended projections of N and V may “converge” at P, challenging the notion of extended projection as being confined to a single lexical category. |
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