Configurations of Sentential Complementation - Perspectives From Romance Languages

Informationen zum Autor Johan Rooryck Klappentext 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. He then examines the problem of clitic ordering in infinitives in Romance languages. The second part of the book addresses various aspects of Wh- sentences: extraction from negative and factive islands, the syntax of free relatives, agreement in relative clauses, and the relation between French relative and interrogative qui and que. Zusammenfassung Drawing on some of Johan Roorycks most ground-breaking work, this study forms a valuable illustration of the interaction between syntax and semantics where matrix and embedded sentences meet. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Johan Rooryck, Rooryck Johan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2000
• EAN: 9780415187794
• ISBN: 978-0-415-18779-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages