Chapter 7
Structural licensing conditions
Article outline
- 7.1The vulnerability of the C-domain
- 7.1.1The C-domain as an interface to discourse
- 7.1.2Preposed elements in [spec,CP]: topic and focus
- 7.1.3Non-sentence initial discourse ellipses
- 7.1.4Person restrictions on topic drop
- 7.1.5Interacting syntactic and semantic restrictions
- 7.2The CP–TP connection – silence under agree
- 7.2.1Empirical patterns
- 7.2.2No CP in subject-initial clauses?
- 7.2.3Feature inheritance from C to T – a phase-based analysis
- 7.2.4Silence under agree
- 7.3Agreement and silence in the C – T complex
- 7.3.1Omitted topicalized subject
- 7.3.2Omitted topicalized object
- 7.3.3
Omitted topicalized subject and auxiliary
- 7.3.4Omission of topicalized object and auxiliary is impossible
- 7.3.5Ellipsis in yes/no questions
- 7.3.6Lexical verbs versus modal and perfective auxiliaries
- 7.4Why is there a subject/object asymmetry in the C-domain?
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