ABSTRACT
We would like to explore briefly two sorts of sentential dependencies. The paratactic view holds the following. To assert that Galileo believes that the earth is round is to assert something akin to “Galileo believed that,” with the object of believe being cataphorically related to the separate sentence, “the Earth is round”. This approach goes back to Andrés Bello’s original insights, and is defended, classically, by Davidson (1967b). In turn, the hypotactic view is familiar to syntactic analyses stemming from Chomsky’s. This view contends that there is a single clause, a complement, which rather than being nominal is an entire clause. We will argue that both types of dependencies are realized in UG.
