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Generalized Clausal Modifiers in Thai Noun Phrases
Author(s) -
Jenks Peter
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/synt.12022
Subject(s) - noun phrase , complementizer , linguistics , predicate (mathematical logic) , mathematics , relative clause , noun , complement (music) , computer science , natural language processing , philosophy , syntax , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , phenotype , gene
Abstract The Thai particle thîi introduces relative clauses and noun‐complement clauses but does not introduce clausal complements of verbs. This paper provides a unified analysis for these two noun phrase‐internal clauses as modifiers, proposing that thîi is a complementizer that is interpreted as a lambda‐operator that derives CP‐sized properties. This analysis is extended to the use of thîi in factive complements of verbs, contrastive clefts, and infinitives. Arguments are presented against the analysis of thîi by den Dikken & Singhapreecha (2004) as a linker , a reflex of DP‐internal predicate inversion.