Rachel Nye

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rachel Nye is involved.

Title

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons

Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye

Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.

Articles

Nye, Rachel 2013 Rethinking the distribution of English finite clausal complements: Evidence from complementiser-how clauses Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 119–130 | Article

This paper advocates a new conception of the properties which determine the distribution of finite clausal complements (FCCs) in English. I argue against the orthodox view that FCCs are selected by matrix predicates on the basis of their interpretive type (Grimshaw 1979; Rizzi 1997; Ginzburg & Sag… read more

Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye 2012 Main Clause Phenomena and the privilege of the root Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article