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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.
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, the syntax of free relatives,
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
Programme. Drawing on some of Johan Roorycks most ground-breaking
work, this study forms a valuable illustration of the interaction
between syntax and semantics where matrix and embedded sentence
This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors
and pronouns. Through a detailed analysis of simplex and complex
anaphors in Dutch and English, as well as other Romance and
Germanic languages, the authors show that the relationship between
an anaphor and its antecedent can be captured in terms of general
Minimalist principles.
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