ABSTRACT
A)TheTransformationalHypothesisofComplementizer Insertion
Invirtuallyallanalysesofcomplementationwithinthe
frameworkofgenerativegrammarthefollowingsentences
woulddifferonlybyoptionaltransformationsinderiva-
"complementizers"-- havebeenviewedasmarkersofsyn-
tacticsubordinationhavingneithersemanticcontentnor
significantsyntacticfunction.Accordingly,examples
(1)- (3)haveusuallybeenassignedacommonunderlying structureroughlysimilartothatrepresentedin(4):1
Given the transformational hypothesis, one possible assumption is that a "rule feature" (Lakoff 1970) is associated with verbs and predicates; thus if the transformation introducing for-to is called ~, then [judging from (2) and (5)] the verbs distress, imply, manage would be marked in the lexicon (either directly or by a redundancy rule) as [+R], [-R], respectively.
