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Comp‐T effects: Variation in the position and features of C *
Author(s) -
Lohndal Terje
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.2009.01159.x
Subject(s) - trace (psycholinguistics) , complementizer , variation (astronomy) , norwegian , computer science , linguistics , syntax , philosophy , natural language processing , physics , astrophysics
. That ‐trace effects have been studied for over thirty years, and have turned out to be an intriguing phenomenon. This paper discusses a recent proposal regarding how that ‐trace in English should be analyzed, and extends this theory to the Scandinavian languages. However, since the late 1970s it has been known that that ‐trace effects are but one instance of Comp‐trace effects. The present paper attempts to show how an account of that ‐trace can be extended to a general Comp‐trace parameter. It is also shown how the present analysis carries over to relative clauses, and the paper broadens the current empirical knowledge of Norwegian relative clauses. The latter has crucial consequences for the analysis of the relative complementizer som , and makes it possible to account for the fact that relative clauses show a “reversed” Comp‐trace effect.