The silence of heads

Richard S. Kayne

doi:10.1515/scl-2016-0001

The silence of heads

Richard S. Kayne

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On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be taken to be silent than is usually thought. I then argue that this state of affairs ultimately reflects the fact that every projecting head is silent.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-37
Number of pages	37
Journal	Studies in Chinese Linguistics
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0001
State	Published - 2016

Keywords

Complementizer
Feature
Sentence-final particle
Silence
Tense

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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