Relative clauses and CP nominalization in Ndebele
Asia Pietraszko
November 2018
 

This paper argues for the existence direct clausal DP-shells – structures in which an embedded CP is directly dominated by a projection of D. While this structure has been proposed in previous literature, it poses a theoretical problem for the well-formedness of extended projections (Grimshaw, 1991, 2000), in which a D head must appear in the extended projection of a noun. A careful investigation of embedded clauses in Ndebele (verb-complement, noun-complement and relative clauses) points to the conclusion that the grammar must allow base generation of direct clausal DP shells.
Format: [ pdf ]
Reference: lingbuzz/003273
(please use that when you cite this article)
Published in: Syntax (2019) with the title: "Obligatory CP nominalization in Ndebele"
keywords: clause nominalization, relative clauses, syntax, morphology, phonology, bantu, ndebele
previous versions: v5 [June 2018]
v4 [June 2018]
v3 [December 2017]
v2 [April 2017]
v1 [January 2017]
Downloaded:2308 times

 

[ edit this article | back to article list ]