| Title: | Structural licensing of sentential complements: Evidence from Russian noun-complement constructions |
| Author: | Mikhail Knyazev |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XVI (2) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | In this paper I discuss restrictions on the realization of sentential complements of nouns on the basis of the distribution of čto-clauses in Russian. I propose an account for these restrictions in which sentential complements of nouns are introduced by a silent preposition necessitated by the structural Case requirement of sentential complements. The observed restrictions follow from the licensing conditions on predication imposed by the silent preposition, which, as I argue, is interpreted as a relation of possession (of propositional content). These licensing conditions are satisfied only in those environments where the complement-taking noun projects a (logophorically controlled) implicit argument, which can serve as the subject for predication. If the proposed account is correct, it provides evidence for the θ-theoretic (Visibility) approach to the Case Filter, which entails that sentential arguments require structural Case licensing. |
| Key words: | sentential complements, nominalization, silent prepositions, predication, implicit arguments |
| Language: | English |
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