Dear Adrian:

This contrast has been discussed by Yehuda Falk in his 2001 book "Lexical 
Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax", 
around p. 170-171.  Yehuda may have more to say about it, or may be able to 
point you to other literature on this.

 - Mary

In message <45D41868.5070500@fass.ubd.edu.bn> Adrian Clynes 
<aclynes@FASS.UBD.EDU.BN> writes:
> Dear Syntacticians,
> I've noticed the following contrast:
> 
> 1) I've listed 5 students I'm fairly sure are no longer taking this course
> 2) *I've listed 5 students are no longer taking this course
> 
> Assuming my grammaticality judgements are shared by others, I'd be 
> grateful for an explanation of the contrast.
> In particular what makes 1) grammatical?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Adrian Clynes
> 

