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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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:52d5cb22e0bc49e8925d8890a827b1992021-12-02T15:27:26ZThe Silence of Heads1017-127410.1515/scl-2016-0001https://doaj.org/article/52d5cb22e0bc49e8925d8890a827b1992016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0001https://doaj.org/toc/1017-1274On 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.Kayne Richard S.Sciendoarticlecomplementizer sentence-final particle silence tense featureChinese language and literaturePL1001-3208ENStudies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol 37, Iss 1, Pp 1-37 (2016)
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sentence-final particle
silence
tense
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Chinese language and literature
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sentence-final particle
silence
tense
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Chinese language and literature
PL1001-3208
Kayne Richard S.
The Silence of Heads
description 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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