Acquisition of phonological empty categories

2005 ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
Ning Pan ◽  
William Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Empty Categories

Empty categories in sentence processing

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. SI155-SI209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Dean Fodor
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Empty Categories

English relative clause constructions

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN A. SAG
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Multiple Inheritance ◽  
Empty Categories ◽  
Construction Type ◽  
Dependency Relations ◽  
Specific Construction ◽  
Type Hierarchy

This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on the notions of construction type and type constraints. Generalizations about dependency relations and clausal functions are factored into distinct dimensions contributing constraints to specific construction types in a multiple inheritance type hierarchy. The grammar presented here provides an account of extraction, pied piping and relative clause ‘stacking’ without appeal to transformational operations, transderivational competition, or invisible (‘empty’) categories of any kind.

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