Phoevos Panagiotidis E. (Editor). The Complementiser Phase: Subjects and Operators

Oxford University Press, 2010. — xvii, 285 pages. — (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). — ISBN: 0199584354, 0199584362.This book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of complementisers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases. The chapters are divided into two parts, each of which highlights aspects of the behaviour and function of complementisers. The first part looks at how and when subjects, or parts of subjects, can and cannot move outside their canonical position in a sentence. Each chapter examines and compares the relevance of a number of syntactic factors in languages such as English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese and Bavarian. In the second part, the focus turns to the nature and function of complementisers themselves, with discussions drawing on evidence from Italian, Italian dialects, Hebrew, and Dutch.Introduction: Complementizers and Their Phase
From Inside the Complementizer Phase: (Sub)Extraction, Mainly of Subjects
On Some Properties of Criterial Freezing
(Non-)Extraction from Subjects as an Edge Phenomenon
Subextraction from Phase Edges
Subjects on the Edge
On the Necessity of Phi-features: The Case of Bavarian Subject Extraction
Apparent Hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese: Agreement with Topics across a Finite CP
Complementizers Themselves: Their Features and Specifier(s)
The Structure and Interpretation of (Romance) Complementizers
Nested Interrogatives and the Locus of Wh
Complex Wh-phrases Don’t Move: On the Interaction between the Split CP Hypothesis and the Syntax of Wh-movement