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This study mainly concerns English data where an overt element apparently intervenes between the head and the complement, which posits an interesting question under the X-bar schema. For the data, three possible movement-based accounts (the incorporation, the rightward movement, the verb movement approaches) are discussed but it is pointed out that those transformational approaches encounter critical problems. Thus, it is concluded that the complement that comes after a modifier is base-generated and is placed in a special complement position that is preserved at the right periphery, being mediated by the light verb phrase which connects the theme structure to the rheme structure. This proposal has an advantage of making a generalization that heavy elements occur at the right periphery. This study further accounts for distributional and grammatical contrasts between non-nominal complements and nominal complements that appear after a modifier. Also, this current account can make a structural distinction between subject inversion and the construction of the heavy complement which have previously been viewed as a heavy NP shift identically, explaining their different distributional fact.

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I. Introduction
 II. Three Possible Movement Analyses
  2.1. Incorporation Analysis
  2.2. Complement Movement Analysis
  2.3. Verb Movement Analysis
 III. Proposal: Heavy Complement Analysis 
 IV. Conclusion
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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• Yoon-kyoung Joh [ 조윤경 | 목포대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820