Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 267] 2021
► pp. 15–26
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.