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This chapter analyzes structures in Welsh and English where an INFL is apparently missing. The sentences in (1)–(2) exemplify such ‘reduced constructions’, in this case reduced yes-no questions.1
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Notes to Chapter 4
Sproat (1985a) offers an analysis that may explain the motivation for that V-fronting.
See Akmajian, Steele and Wasow (1979) for an analysis of the English INFL system.
This distinction goes back to the treatment of deletions in the Standard Theory of Chomsky (1965).
For example, Raney (1986) cites in a different context examples from the novels of Kate Roberts (e.g. Traed mewn cyffrion)
The Welsh examples in (30) are adapted from Jones and Thomas (1977).
Hornstein (1977) uses Reichenbach’s formalism to some advantage in his treatment of temporal adverbs.
Chapter 5 discusses the behavior of prepositions serving as complementizers.
See Koopman (1983).
The agreement marker that appears on the non-finite verb gweld in these examples is discussed at length in Chapters 5 and 6.
The resistance of (65a-c) to contraction is related to the well-known observation that gaps to the right of a verbal element block contraction. Kaisse (1983) and Nespor and Scorretti (1984) provide very different accounts of this generalization.
Trepos (1980, pp. 249, 276) indicates that the presence of da in examples such as these is optional. Hemon (1975a) claims that da emphasizes the inception of the activity denoted by the verb. Hemon also notes that the initial conjunction in these examples is not obligatory.
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Hendrick, R. (1988). PRO-INFL and Reduced Structures. In: Anaphora in Celtic and Universal Grammar. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2719-3_4
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