Rooryck Johan. Configurations of Sentential Complementation: Perspectives from Romance Languages

Routledge, 2000. — xviii, 265 pp. — (Routledge Leading Linguists). — ISBN: 0-203-18765-2.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 islands, agreement in relative clauses, and the relation between French relative and interrogative qui and que.Throughout the work, the author compares properties of complementation in French and other Romance languages with such properties in the Germanic languages. He assumes Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters framework, but also integrates insights from the Minimalist Program.Raising
Introduction: the alternation between seem and believe
The syntax of the complement of seem/believe: a critical overview
Two-step raising: IP moves to SpecCP before subject movement
The likeness of seem: comparison and Focus
Believe and Focus
On more differences between French and English
Conclusions and conjectures
Pseudo-Raising
Apparent raising out of tensed CPs in Portuguese
Similarities and differences between Portuguese and English
Pseudo-raising and Strong Binding
How does Strong Binding come about?
Restrictions on movement of AGRSP to SpecCP
Pseudo-raising in believe contextsControlA modular analysis of control or a control module?
Fine-tuning lexical semantics: event structure and control
Temporal identification of the infinitival C°
Lexical coindexation of C° in V° and Binding of AGRS°
Event structure, Binding, and control: some examples
Control in infinitival subjects and adjuncts
Conclusion: ‘out of control’
Enclitic Ordering in Imperatives and InfinitivesFraming the problem
The anaphoric nature of the infinitival AGR-S° and the imperative AGR-C°
Analysis: the anaphoric AGR°(-S/-C°) as an intervening governor for RM
Some further problems and consequencesClitic ClimbingClitic climbing out of wh-infinitives
Motivating T° climbing independently of clitic climbing
Some apparent problemsNegative and Factive IslandsOn inner islands, Neg-raising and negation-bound C°
On factive islands and Wh-feature compatibilityOn Two Types of Underspecification: Evidence from Agreement in Relative Clauses
Syntactic underspecification
On 0- and α- features in the domain of C°
α- and 0- features in syntax and phonology
Appendix: the specification of features
A Unified Analysis of French Interrogative and Complementizer Qui/QueDifferences between interrogative and complementizer qui and que
A unifying analysis of qui/que