Chapter 2
Cartography and selection in subjunctives and
interrogatives
On the assumption that a head c-selects the head
of its sister phrase, the question I try to answer is how to
implement selection of (indirect) questions and of subjunctive
complements. The question is relevant to cartography because the
head encoding Q (in interrogatives) and Mood-Subjunctive (in
subjunctive complement clauses) is presumably not the head of ForceP
but is merged lower down. I argue that it is always Force° which is
selected and the relation between Force° and material lower in the
left periphery is mediated by Agree. I further show that an Agree
probe in the left periphery, whose search domain is TP, must
implicate Fin, which I argue to be a phase head.
Article outline
- 1.The problem
- 2.Structure of the paper
- 3.The selection of (subjunctive) mood
- 4.Selection and agreement in indirect questions
- 4.1Wh-interrogatives
- 4.2Yes-No interrogatives
- 5.FORCE in root clauses
- 6.Summary and conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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