Adverbial and Argument-Doubling Clauses in Cree - MSpace

would not be any such role for a CP. The Theta Cntenon States that a theta-role can be
assigned to one and only one argument. If the theta-roles are filled by the pronominah,
there is no way to create an argument position for a complement clause.
In this thesis, I wiU propose that we can make a syntactic differentiation between
adjunct-like and complement-like clauses while maintaining a non-argument status for
both. This proposa1 will achieve the following:
i) a treatment which illustrates a syntactic difference between adjunct-iike
(adverbial) and complement-like (argument-doubling) clauses (not
stnictural position)
ii)
iii)
a treatment for argument-doubling clauses
a refinernent of the restrictions governing obviation, including proximate
shifts
There is a general consensus among earlier descriptions and treatments of
subordinate clauses as to the existence of two kinds of subordinate clauses, narnely those
with adjunct-like behaviour and those with complement-like behaviour. The treatment
proposed here builds on this previous work, and attempts to provide an analysis which
provides for this long-recognized distinction in subordinate clauses.
The next chapter wiil present an oveMew of the Pronominal Argument Hypothesis
(PAH). as well as an introduction to Cree morphology. NPs and subordinate clauses.