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Sentential Subject with `to' complement: Ts0Vtonx1

Description:
The verbs that select this tree family are fall, occur and leak. The sentential subject can be indicative (complementizer required) or infinitive (complementizer optional).
Examples:
fall, occur, leak
to wash the car fell to the children .
that he should leave occurred to the party crasher .
whether the princess divorced the prince leaked to the press .
Declarative tree:
See Figure 6.31.
  
Figure: Sentential Subject Tree with `to' complement: $\alpha $s0Vtonx1
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Other available trees:
wh-moved subject, adjunct (gap-less) relative clause with comp/with PP pied-piping.


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1998-09-14