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Partee-Borschev Grant Open Meeting

The Genitive of Negation grant group will meet on Tuesday, October 2, at 12:45 pm in the Partee Room. Keir Moulton will be presenting on 'Clausal Complementation and Subject Raising'.

Abstract [handout]

I will present an account for a long-standing puzzle about restrictions on raising to object constructions (the Derived Object Constraint (DOC), Postal 1974). I show that verbs subject to the DOC do not by themselves select for complement clauses, and I argue that their complement is instead selected by a higher (functional) head. This has the effect of allowing only a subset of movement options out of the clause. General implications, and predictions, for the nature of clausal complementation will be discussed.

[Thanks Aynat!]