The Doubly-Filled COMP Filter and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Revisited
- 한국영어학학회
- 영어학연구
- 영어학연구 제20권 1호
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2014.0451 - 68 (17 pages)
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The purpose of this paper is two-folds: One is to re-examine the data that violate the Doubly-Filled COMP Filter (DFCF) from Old and Middle English and other related languages and show various types of co-occurrence of overt complementizers and other materials. The other is to evaluate the two proposals for this violation of the DFCF, namely the split CP analysis such that various elements in the COMP position are different functional heads and the clausal boundary analysis advanced in Jang (2011) such that the DFCF is violated when the clausal boundary is needed to be demarcated. We will show that neither of these proposals are adequate enough to incorporate data from Old English, Early Middle English, Middle English, and some variants of Modem English, as well as other genetically unrelated languages.
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Old English and Early Middle English
3. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other Middle English Data
4. Variants of Modem English
5. Violation of the DFCF in Other Languages
6. Previous Analyses and Their Potential Problems
7. Summary and Concluding Remarks
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