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Serial Verbs and the Empty Category Principle in Krio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Dudley K. Nylander
Dudley K. Nylander*
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University of Manitoba/Université de Grenoble
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One of the principles of grammar introduced in Chomsky (1981) is the Empty Category Principle, which can be stated as follows:

  • (i) [α e] must be properly governed.

Proper government, as defined by Chomsky, is of two types (see footnote 2). First, there is proper government by a lexical category of the [±N±V] type. In (2a), for example, the empty category (ei) is properly governed by the verb see, a lexical element of the [-N+V] type. Second, there is proper government by coindexation. In (2b), for example, the empty category in subject position (ei) is properly governed by the coindexed trace in COMP (ti).

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 1985 , pp. 15 - 32
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1985

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