TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Wöllstein, Angelika
ED  - Lohnstein, Horst
ED  - Trissler, Susanne
T1  - Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German
T2  - The syntax and semantics of the left periphery
N2  - 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.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Objektsatz
KW  - Satzkonjunktion
KW  - Infinitivkonstruktion
Y1  - 2004
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-28655
SN  - 3110181215
SB  - 3110181215
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912111.489
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912111.489
SP  - 489
EP  - 518
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -