Complementizer Agreement

Marjo van Koppen

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Complementizer Agreement

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This chapter discusses Complementizer Agreement (CA): agreement between the complementizer introducing an embedded finite clause and the subject of that embedded clause. CA is mainly found in Frisian and the nonstandard varieties of Dutch and German. This chapter discusses the morphological properties of CA, in particular the (defectivity of) its paradigm, the relation between the CA paradigm and the verbal agreement paradigm, and the relation between the agreement on the complementizer, clitics, and pro-drop. It also goes into the syntactic properties of CA: its distribution in the left periphery and the relation between the subject and the complementizer.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
Editors	Michael Putnam, B. Richard Page
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	14
Pages	313-336
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108378291
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108378291.015
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2020

Keywords

complementizer agreement
verbal agreement
pro-drop
clitics
adjacency
left periphery
German dialects
Dutch dialects
Frisian

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