Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
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.
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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. 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.
Configurations of sentential complementation.
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Romance languages-- Complement.
Romance languages-- Syntax.
Complementszinnen.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- French.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Romance Languages (Other)