EXTRACTION FROM MAKE THE CLAIM CONSTRUCTIONS

The sequence make the claim that S has certain syntactic properties wh ich indicate the presence of some sort of complex predicate, previousl y suggested to be a Light Verb Construction (LVC) or a reanalysis of N and V to a complex V. I consider and reject both these proposals, and propose an alternative structure which is still a type of complex pre dicate. Adopting the Locality framework of Manzini (1992, 1994), I sho w that a syntactic account of extractions from make the claim follows straight forwardly. I also show that extraction from make the claim is distinct from extraction from indefinites.