Configurations of sentential complementation : perspectives from Romance languages /

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 prov...

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Main Author: Rooryck, Johan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Routledge leading linguists ; 4.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Raising
  • 2. Pseudo-raising
  • 3. Control
  • 4. Enclitic 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.