Complementizer Agreement

TY - CHAP

T1 - Complementizer Agreement

AU - van Koppen, M.

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - This chapter discusses Complementizer Agreement (CA): agreement between the complementizer introducing an embedded finite clause and the subject of that embedded clause. CA is mainly found in Frisian and the nonstandard varieties of Dutch and German. This chapter discusses the morphological properties of CA, in particular the (defectivity of) its paradigm, the relation between the CA paradigm and the verbal agreement paradigm, and the relation between the agreement on the complementizer, clitics, and pro-drop. It also goes into the syntactic properties of CA: its distribution in the left periphery and the relation between the subject and the complementizer.

AB - This chapter discusses Complementizer Agreement (CA): agreement between the complementizer introducing an embedded finite clause and the subject of that embedded clause. CA is mainly found in Frisian and the nonstandard varieties of Dutch and German. This chapter discusses the morphological properties of CA, in particular the (defectivity of) its paradigm, the relation between the CA paradigm and the verbal agreement paradigm, and the relation between the agreement on the complementizer, clitics, and pro-drop. It also goes into the syntactic properties of CA: its distribution in the left periphery and the relation between the subject and the complementizer.

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108378291

DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108378291

M3 - Chapter

SP - 313

BT - The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics

A2 - Putnam, Michael

A2 - Page, Richard

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - Cambridge

ER -