TY - CHAP U1 - Teil eines Buches 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 -