1st Edition
Configurations of Sentential Complementation Perspectives from Romance Languages
By Johan Rooryck
Copyright 2000
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar. The first part of the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author provides new perspectives on raising and control, longstanding problems in infinitival complementation.... Read more
1. Raising 2. Pseudo-raising 3. Control 4. Enclitil ordering in imperatives and infinitives 5. Clitic climbing 6. Negative and factive islands 7. On two types of underspecification: evidence from agreement in relative clauses 8. A unified analysis of French interrogative and complementizer qui/que
Biography
Johan Rooryck
