Nun-Marked Remnant Allowing pro and Beyond in the Ciman Construction

Abstract

The compatibility of the nun-marked remnants in the ciman-construction allowing null pronominalization is attributed to their counterparts’ syntactically independent state. The accusative-marked possessor or the adjunct is syntactically independent sate out of its immediately following nominal in the sentence-level context. That is, it is syntactically independent out of its following pro, modifying the verbal predicate, which induces it to allow pro (Lee 2013b). The counterpart of the nun-marked remnant undergoing null pronominalization allows a multiple case marking (i.e., MCM) type or adjunct type construction. The nun-marked remnant entailing the seeming possessum may also show up in the subsequent clause of the ciman construction even when the counterpart of the nun-marked remnant does not allow an MCM or adjunct construction. At this point, it is selected by the verbal predicate, which triggers a bleeding problem.