Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Ivan A. Sag, Janet Dean Fodor · Langages · 1996
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar that can formalize the notion of a missing complement via syntactic features without positing a trace in a syntactic tree.