Clausal Deficiency
Deniz Satik
January 2024 

This thesis investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of clauses which are considered to be deficient in some manner, which are often called infinitival or nonfinite clauses. This thesis is concerned with three types of features that are relevant to the deficiency of a clause: (i) syntactic, for instance the ability of a clause to have an independent subject; (ii) morphosyntactic, or whether the verb of the clause in question is sufficiently marked for inflectional features like tense or agreement; and (iii) semantic, for example whether a clause is fully specified for tense. The fundamental goal of this thesis is to uncover crosslinguistic patterns regarding the syntactic, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of these deficient clauses.

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Published in:	PhD thesis, Harvard University
keywords:	infinitives, deficiency, control, clause size, raising, complementizer, semantics, syntax
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