Title: Configurations of sentential complementation : perspectives from Romance languages /
Authors: Rooryck, Johan.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Romance languages Complement.; Romance languages Syntax.
Contents: 1. 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 -- 2. 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 AGR[subscript S]P to SpecCP -- Pseudo-raising in believe contexts -- 3. Control -- A modular analysis of control or a control module? -- Fine-tuning lexical semantics: event structure and control -- Temporal identification of the infinitival [actual symbol not reproducible] -- Lexical coindexation of [actual symbol not reproducible] in [actual symbol not reproducible] and Binding of [actual symbol not reproducible] --^