Abstract
This chapter presents some of the most-discussed syntactic examples of embedded root phenomena—syntactic configurations that are restricted to root clauses and a subset of embedded environments. It discusses the different types of embedded environments that have been argued to license such phenomena: a subset of complement clauses and adverbial clauses, and non-restrictive relatives. and provides a critical overview of different current approaches—semantico-pragmatic and syntactic—to explaining this distribution. The chapter includes an discussion of embedded Verb Second in different varieties of Germanic as a case study exemplifying the concepts discussed. This chapter is a completely revised, extended, and updated version of the chapter that appeared in the first edition of the Blackwell Companion in 2006.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Blackwell Companion to Syntax |
| Editors | Martin Everaert , Henk C. Van Riemsdijk |
| Publisher | Oxford: Blackwell |
| Chapter | 23 |
| Pages | 174-209 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118358733 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118358726 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2017 |
Keywords
- syntax
- root phenomena
- scope
- adverbial clauses
- factives
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Caroline Heycock
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair in Syntax
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