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By Joan Bresnan

The topic of this examine, first released in 1979, is the position of the complementizer in English syntax and its implications for syntactic thought. it's argued that the universal transformational remedy of complementizers is insufficient, and they needs to be laid out in deep constitution by way of a word constitution rule. This identify could be of curiosity to scholars of language and linguistics.

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