Earticle

초록

영어

This paper investigates the well-known restriction that English embedded topicalization is possible only in the presence of an overt complementizer. Building on the view of topicalization as adjunction to TP and Mizuguchi’s (2018) theory of complementizer externalization, this paper argues that this distribution follows from how C and T are merged in the derivation. Overt complementizers prevent T-to-C pair-Merge and ensure the projection of an independent TP, providing the structural position required for topicalization. Null complementizers, by contrast, arise precisely when T is pair-merged with C, eliminating TP and rendering embedded topicalization impossible. The analysis accounts for a range of contrasts involving subject versus object topicalization, the that-trace effect, and the behavior of long-distance movement, all without additional stipulations beyond independently motivated constraints. Apparent counterexamples, including blocking effects, stacking, and affective fronting, are shown to result from separate locality conditions or distinct properties of negative inversion, not from topicalization itself. The findings highlight the complementizer as a direct diagnostic of the underlying C-T configuration and offer new insight into the structural prerequisites for embedded topicalization.

목차

I. Introduction
II. Preliminaries
III. Core Analysis
IV. Further Discussion
V. Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
Abstract

키워드

저자

• Lee, Chang-Su [ U1 University ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810