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Chapter 14 - Complementizer Agreement

from Part II - Morphology and Agreement Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

By
Marjo van Koppen
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Michael T. Putnam  and
B. Richard Page
Michael T. Putnam
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
B. Richard Page
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Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

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.

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complementizer agreementverbal agreementpro-dropcliticsadjacencyleft peripheryGerman dialectsDutch dialectsFrisian
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The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics , pp. 313 - 336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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