Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German
- Complement clauses in German can have a lexical complementizer when they are finite, but they must not have one when they are non-finite. I will argue that this distribution follows from the referential properties of the sentential complement. According to Grimshaw, only referential categories extend to functional projections. The status marker zu in German infinitival complements can be shown to block reference. Thus, non-finite complement clauses with zu do not project a left periphery and cannot host a complementizer.
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| Author: | Angelika WöllsteinGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-28655 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912111.489 |
| ISBN: | 3110181215 |
| Parent Title (English): | The syntax and semantics of the left periphery |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/07/15 |
| Tag: | Satzkonjunktion |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Infinitivkonstruktion; Objektsatz |
| First Page: | 489 |
| Last Page: | 518 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch / 435 Deutsche Grammatik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |