The complementizer phase : subjects and operators

The complementizer phase : subjects and operators / edited by E. Phoevos Panagiotidis.

This text addresses the role complementisers and their phrases play in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language. Leading linguists and promising young scholars draw on analyses of a wide range of languages to consider how complementisers behave in subject extraction phenomena.

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Other Authors: Panagiotidis, Phoevos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 30.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Complement.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Complement
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : complementizers and their phase / E. Phoevos Panagiotidis
  • pt. I. From inside the complementizer phase : (sub)extraction, mainly of subjects. On some properties of criterial freezing / Luigi Rizzi ; (Non)extraction from subjects as an edge phenomenon / George Kotzoglou ; Subextraction from phase edges / ℓngel J. Gallego ; Subjects on the edge / Anna Roussou ; On the necessity of phifeatures : the case of Bavarian subject extraction / Clemens Mayr ; Apparent hyperraising in Brazilian Portuguese : agreement with topics across a finite CP / Ana Maria Martins and Jairo Nunes
  • pt. II. Complementizers themselves : their features and specifier(s). The structure and interpretation of (romance) complementizers / M. Rita Manzini ; Nested interrogatives and the locus of wh / Omer Preminger ; Complex whphrases don't move : on the interaction between the split CP hypothesis and the syntax of whmovement / Jeroen van Craenenbroeck.

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