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Extraction from make the claim constructions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1998

KATE KEARNS
KATE KEARNS
Affiliation:
University of Canterbury
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Abstract

The sequence make the claim that S has certain syntactic properties which indicate the presence of some sort of complex predicate, previously suggested to be a Light Verb Construction (LVC) or a reanalysis of N and V to a complex V. I consider and reject both these proposals, and propose an alternative structure which is still a type of complex predicate. Adopting the Locality framework of Manzini (1992, 1994), I show that a syntactic account of extractions from make the claim follows straightforwardly. I also show that extraction from make the claim is distinct from extraction from indefinites.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 53 - 72
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I wish to thank the anonymous referee for Journal of Linguistics for many helpful comments and suggestions, and particularly for recommending the use of Manzini's Locality framework. Any remaining errors or problems are my own.