REDUCED QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH

Abstract

In this paper, I will first examine some previous analyses of reduced questions that have been advanced within the framework of generative syntax, and show that they are inadequate in a number of respects. Then I will propose an extended version of the null complement analysis, which adopts Wasow's 1979 basic idea that the reduced question is a null complement, but stipulates that its internal structure is ensured by the interpretive rule based on Nakau's theory of semantic structure.