Complementizer Agreement
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2017-12
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van Koppen, Marjo
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Everaert, Martin
van Riemsdijk, Henk
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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.
Keywords
agree, agreement, clitics, generative grammar, morphology, PF, syntax, syntax–morphology interface, verbal agreement, Taverne
Citation
van Koppen, J M 2017, Complementizer Agreement. in M Everaert & H van Riemsdijk (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Syntax : Second Edition. 2 edn, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 923-962. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom061