7.2 The Clause as CP

The generalisation is now that all verbs which select for a finite declarative complement select for a CP. This is fairly easy to capture in terms of the notion of canonical structural realisation principles. The idea behind this is quite simple. Basically, certain arguments are canonically realised by certain categories. For example, themes are typically realised as DPs and locations as PPs. This is their ‘canonical realisation’. It may be that a certain degree of non-canonical realisation of arguments is possible, for example the nominal home can realise a goal argument usually realised by a PP: