@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027996, author = {Hirai, Daisuke}, journal = {IVY}, month = {Oct}, note = {The main purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of the complementizer that after speaking verbs, primarily on the basis of data collected from intuitive judgments by native speakers. Then, it is argued that previous analyses are not well supported by the result from the obtained data. It has been assumed traditionally that the complementizer that in English following a matrix verb is freely deletable. Thus, both sentences in (1) are grammatical. (1) a. We said that George Strait was awesome. b. We said George Strait was awesome. Specifically, it has often been said that the complementizer that after speaking verbs is not always necessary, although the deletion of the complemetizer that after thinikng verbs such as forget, realize, regret, suppose, or think is restricted to a certain circumstance. However, it is also pointed out by many linguists that the deletion of the complementizer that after speaking verbs may be subject to some requirements as in (2). (2) Italian Olympic Committee announced *(that) all officials, regardless of nationality, will wear the same uniform. (Fowler (1965: 633)) To account for this fact, some analyses have been proposed in the literature. One analysis is, based on frequency of verbs, that the complemetizer that is deletable if it is after high-frequent verbs. However, I argue that this is not adequate by showing that evidence collected from corpus data cannot provide supporting evidence for this analysis. Another analysis argues that some types of verbs do not allow deleting the complementizer that like factive verbs. As for this analysis, further examination seems to be necessary. To see whether the latter analysis is correct, my informants are asked to fill out, with their linguistic intuition, a questionnaire on the possibility of the deletion of the complementizer that. The speaking verbs used for the test are selected from Quirk et al. (1985) by referring to information on the frequency of words. Then, considering the result obtained from the questionnaires, we will see that the analyses in the literature are not on the right track. In fact, the obtained result shows that verbs that are supposed in the literature to permit the deletion of the complementizer that do not necessarily admit deleting it while verbs that are supposed to require obligatorily the complemenmtizer that admit omitting it. That is, the empirical evidence does not match the predications made by the previous analyses. Therefore, it can be concluded that a new analysis is necessary to account for the distribution of the complementizer that. If my discussion is correct, the preference of the occurrence of the complementizer that will be due to another requirement different form the requirement suggested in the previous analyses.}, pages = {133--149}, title = {Some Notes on the Deletion of THAT : Speaking Verbs}, volume = {36}, year = {2003} }