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Ling Lunch talk

Time:

Dr Christos Vlachos

Queen Mary, University of London

 

"Embedding unselected clauses"

Abstract: 

"Unselected" is a clause that is not an argument or adjunct of an underlying lexical item (Emonds 1985). Under the previous definition, (1) and (2) are unselected clauses, because neither of them is an argument or adjunct of an underlying lexical item: 

 

(1) Do you think? (yes/no question)

(2) Who did Mary see? (wh-question)

 

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