Year: 1992
Number 50: 1-24

Sabine Iatridou & Anthony Kroch
The Licensing of CP-recursion and its Relevance to the Germanic Verb Second Phenomenon






Year: 1992
Number 50: 25-54

Christer Platzack
Complementizer Agreement and Argument Clitics






Year: 1992
Number 50: 55-74

Halldór Sigurðsson
Agreement as Visible F-government






Year: 1992
Number 50: 75-86

Tor A. Åfarli
Seeds and Functional Projections

In this article I discuss some theoretical points concerning functional projections in the context of Norwegian and English clause structure. I start with the basic assumption that all trees grow out of a seed, i.e. that all X'-projections must be headed by some substance. Then I propose a seed typology, where the classification is according to the substantial make-up of the seed. The rest of the article is an effort to show that the three possible seed types that are proposed on a priori grounds, namely covert seeds, overt seeds, and dummy seeds, actually exist in natural language.