The Complementizer Phase: Subjects and Operators
E. Phoevos Panagiotidis
Aug 2010 · Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Book 30 · OUP Oxford
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This book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of complementizers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases. The chapters are divided into two parts, each of which highlights aspects of the behaviour and function of complementisers. The first part looks at how and when subjects, or parts of subjects, can and cannot move outside their canonical position in a sentence. Each chapter examines and compares the relevance of a number of syntactic factors in languages such as English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese and Bavarian. In the second part, the focus turns to the nature and function of complementisers themselves, with discussions drawing on evidence from Italian, Italian dialects, Hebrew, and Dutch. "This important compilation advances our knowledge of the intricate phenomena that take place on the edges of clauses. Every one of the contributions is thought-provoking and challenging, a property that would make the volume an ideal text for a graduate seminar in syntactic theory." Frederick J. Newmeyer Professor Emeritus, University of Washington and Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University
About the author
E. Phoevos Panagiotidis is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns (John Benjamins 2002) and has published numerous articles on syntactic theory in Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, and the Journal of Greek Linguistics.
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