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- Title
Obligatory CP Nominalization in Ndebele.
- Authors
Pietraszko, Asia
- 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 (Grimshaw). 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.
- Subjects
NOMINALS (Grammar); NDEBELE language (Zimbabwe); PARENTHETICAL constructions (Grammar); RELATIVE clauses; ENGLISH gerund
- Publication
Syntax, 2019, Vol 22, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
1368-0005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/synt.12167