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Syncretisms with the nominal complementizers

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2018
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Baunaz, L., & Lander, E. (2018). Syncretisms with the nominal complementizers. Studia Linguistica. A Journal of General Linguistics, 72(3), 537–570. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12076

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Nominal complementizers (e.g. Eng. that, Fr. que) often have the same morphophonological form as other grammatical items, such as demonstrative, relative, and wh-pronouns. In this paper we treat such overlaps as instantiations of syncretism, and we discuss the different patterns of syncretism with the nominal complementizer in various languages. We treat the syncretism facts within a nanosyntactic framework (Starke 2009, Caha 2009), meaning that complementizers are not simplex heads of CP (or ForceP/FinP in Rizzi’s 1997 sense) but act

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  • Baunaz, Lena
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  • Lander, Eric
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72

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3

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537

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570

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English

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2018-12-01

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2018-02-01

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0039-3193

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216 since deposited on 2018-02-01
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145 since deposited on 2018-02-01
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Baunaz, L., & Lander, E. (2018). Syncretisms with the nominal complementizers. Studia Linguistica. A Journal of General Linguistics, 72(3), 537–570. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12076

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