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This article provides an analysis of the seem as if constructions in English. Focus is put, in particular, on two following observations: (i) that the verb seem, standardly analyzed as monadic (or unaccusative), takes both a finite clause and a subject, and (ii) that no other types of finite clause than as if/though is not allowed in the construction. Given that pronouns and their antecedents form a single doubling constituent at the outset in the derivation (Kayne 2002), it will be argued that the subject of that verb starts out in the downstairs clause and undergoes raising to subject position in the upstairs. Furthermore, the acceptability contrast that as if and that finite clauses represent is proposed to reduce to the subclasses of complementizers with respect to [±Predicative](Rizzi 1990).

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1. Introduction
 2. Monadic seem
 3. Analysis
  3.1. Pronoun-antecedent relationship
  3.2. As if as a predicative complementizer
  3.3. Complex predicate
 4. Conclusion
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저자

• Changguk Yim [ Chung-Ang University ]

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