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Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 267] 2021
► pp. 15–26

Chapter 2
Cartography and selection in subjunctives and interrogatives

| Université de Genève
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.
Keywords: cartography, selection, FORCE, left periphery, subjunctives, interrogatives
Article outline
  • 1.The problem
  • 2.Structure of the paper
  • 3.The selection of (subjunctive) mood
  • 4.Selection and agreement in indirect questions
    • 4.1 Wh-interrogatives
    • 4.2Yes-No interrogatives
  • 5.FORCE in root clauses
  • 6.Summary and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 October 2021
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