Obligatory CP Nominalization in Ndebele. (17th December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pietraszko, Asia
• Is Part Of: Syntax. Volume 22:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 66
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2018-12-17
• Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Periodicals; 415
• DOI: 10.1111/synt.12167
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1368-0005

Abstract

Abstract: This article argues for the existence of obligatory clausal DP shells: a structure 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, since according to one theory of well‐formed extended projections, a D head can only occur in the extended projection of a noun (Grimshaw1991 2000 ). 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.