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'''Doubly-filled COMP Filter''' is a [[filter]] which excludes the co-occurrence of a ''wh''-phrase and a [[complementizer]] in a COMP-position, as in (i).

 (i) I wonder who (*that/*whether) she saw

Examples like these have been accounted for by assuming that [[complementizer deletion]] must obtain so as to satisfy this filter. The introduction of the [[CP]] necessitates an alternative formulation of this filter. The problem of (i) is now the obligatory deletion of COMP in English.

=== Link ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Doubly-filled+COMP+Filter&lemmacode=1097 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

=== References ===

* Riemsdijk, H. van and E. Williams 1986. ''Introduction to the theory of grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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