<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles,
need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated
particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads
in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be taken to be silent than is
usually thought. I then argue that this state of affairs ultimately reflects the fact
that every projecting head is silent.提要本文探討的對象包括標句詞、句末助詞、“need”、體、時、焦點與話題、一致關係
語素、限定詞、與動詞有關的助詞、介詞，得出的結論是：在句子投射系列及其他
位置上，無聲中心語的數目應該遠多於過去所理解。本文進而指出，以上的情況都
說明一個事實，那就是中心語都是無聲的成分。</abstract>

On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles,
need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated
particles and adpositions, I reach the conclusion that many more heads
in the sentential projection line (and elsewhere) must be taken to be silent than is
usually thought. I then argue that this state of affairs ultimately reflects the fact
that every projecting head is silent.提要本文探討的對象包括標句詞、句末助詞、“need”、體、時、焦點與話題、一致關係
語素、限定詞、與動詞有關的助詞、介詞，得出的結論是：在句子投射系列及其他
位置上，無聲中心語的數目應該遠多於過去所理解。本文進而指出，以上的情況都
說明一個事實，那就是中心語都是無聲的成分。

The Silence of Heads

Department of Linguistics, New York University, 10 Washington Place #403, New
York, NY 10003, USA

Studies in Chinese Linguistics

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On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles,
need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners,...

The Silence of Heads

Published Online: Jun 30, 2016

Page range: 1 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0001

Keywords
complementizer, sentence-final particle, silence, tense, feature

© T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Silence of Heads

Published Online: Jun 30, 2016

Page range: 1 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0001

Keywordscomplementizer, sentence-final particle, silence, tense, feature

© T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
complementizer, sentence-final particle, silence, tense, feature