The silence of heads

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Abstract

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.

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Kayne, R. S. (2016). The silence of heads. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 37(1), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0001

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