Configurations of Sentential Complementation: Perspectives from Romance Languages

by Johan Rooryck

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415646898
• ISBN13: 9780415646895
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"