Configurations of sentential complementation : perspectives from Romance languages / Johan Rooryck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rooryck, Johan.

Series:

Routledge leading linguists ; 4.

Routledge leading linguists ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Complement.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; CONFIGURATIONS OF SENTENTIAL COMPLEMENTATION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 RAISING; Introduction: the alternation between seem and believe; The syntax of the complement of seem/believe: a critical overview; Two-step raising: IP moves to SpecCP before subject movement; The likeness of seem: comparison and Focus; Believe and Focus; On more differences between French and English; Conclusions and conjectures; 2 PSEUDO-RAISING; Apparent raising out of tensed CPs in Portuguese; Similarities and differences between Portuguese and English

Pseudo-raising and Strong Binding; How does Strong Binding come about?; Restrictions on movement of AGRSP to SpecCP; Pseudo-raising in believe contexts; Conclusion; 3 CONTROL; Introduction; A modular analysis of control or a control module?; Fine-tuning lexical semantics: event structure and control; Temporal identification of the infinitival C°; Lexical coindexation of C° in V° and Binding of AGRS°; Event structure, Binding, and control: some examples; Control in infinitival subjects and adjuncts; Conclusion: 'out of control'; 4 ENCLITIC ORDERING IN IMPERATIVES AND INFINITIVES; Introduction

Framing the problem; The anaphoric nature of the infinitival AGR-S° and the imperative AGR-C°; Analysis: the anaphoric AGR°(-S/-C°) as an intervening governor for RM; Some further problems and consequences; Conclusion; 5 CLITIC CLIMBING; Introduction; Clitic climbing out of wh-infinitives; Motivating T° climbing independently of clitic climbing; Some apparent problems; Conclusion; 6 NEGATIVE AND FACTIVE ISLANDS; Introduction; On inner islands, Neg-raising and negation-bound C°; On factive islands and Wh-feature compatibility; Conclusion

7 ON TWO TYPES OF UNDERSPECIFICATION: EVIDENCE FROM AGREEMENT IN RELATIVE CLAUSES; Syntactic underspecification; On 0- and α-features in the domain of C°; α- and 0- features in syntax and phonology; Appendix: the specification of features; 8 A UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF FRENCH INTERROGATIVE AND COMPLEMENTIZER QUI/QUE; Introduction; Differences between interrogative and complementizer qui and que; A unifying analysis of qui/que; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-32644-1

0-203-18765-2

0-203-27192-0

9780203187654

OCLC:

437074665