The essential requirement for an independent sentence (preliminary)

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The aim of this paper is to answer the question: "What does a clausal structure need to have in order to qualify as an independent non-elliptical utterance?" Accepting Hazout's proposal to assume that a Hebrew verbless sentence has pro generated as the first person external argument of VP and raised to the specifier position of Finite Phrase (FinP) in the CP zone passing through the Spec of vP and the Spec of TP if TP is generated. In order to support this assumption linguistic facts concerning Gensyo-bun (sentences expressing the speaker's perception of on-going events or existence of states at the speaking time) and Kankaku-bun (sentences expressing the speaker's perception at the speaking time, both without the tense specification, are presented in this paper. This attempt has been successful to a certain extent, clarifying the characteristics of pro whose existence requires not only the fine structure of TP but also the well articulated structure of CP. By positing pro a verbless sentence or a sentence without the tense specification can be interpreted as a full finite sentence.