Complementizer Agreement

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Abstract

Complementizers agree in phi-features with the embedded subject in dialects of German and Dutch, in Tense with the embedded clause in Irish and in phi-features with the matrix subject in certain African languages. These complementizer agreement phenomena will be the main empirical focus of this chapter. In particular it discusses the empirical generalizations and analyses of complementizer agreement itself as well as the relevance of this phenomenon for the theoretical debate on the interaction between the syntactic and the PF module of the grammar, the analysis of agreement, the relation between T0 and C0, and the layout of the left periphery.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Syntax
Subtitle of host publicationSecond Edition
EditorsMartin Everaert, Henk van Riemsdijk
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages923-962
Number of pages39
Edition2
ISBN (Electronic)9781118358733
ISBN (Print)978-1-118-35872-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2017

Keywords

  • agree
  • agreement
  • clitics
  • generative grammar
  • morphology
  • PF
  • syntax
  • syntax–morphology interface
  • verbal agreement

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