Cover -- CONFIGURATIONS OF SENTENTIAL COMPLEMENTATION -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 RAISING -- Introduction: the alternation between seem and believe -- The syntax of the complement of seem/believe: a critical overview -- Two-step raising: IP moves to SpecCP before subject movement -- The likeness of seem: comparison and Focus -- Believe and Focus -- On more differences between French and English -- Conclusions and conjectures -- 2 PSEUDO-RAISING -- Apparent raising out of tensed CPs in Portuguese -- Similarities and differences between Portuguese and English -- Pseudo-raising and Strong Binding -- How does Strong Binding come about? -- Restrictions on movement of AGRSP to SpecCP -- Pseudo-raising in believe contexts -- Conclusion -- 3 CONTROL -- Introduction -- A modular analysis of control or a control module? -- Fine-tuning lexical semantics: event structure and control -- Temporal identification of the infinitival C° -- Lexical coindexation of C° in V° and Binding of AGRS° -- Event structure, Binding, and control: some examples -- Control in infinitival subjects and adjuncts -- Conclusion: 'out of control' -- 4 ENCLITIC ORDERING IN IMPERATIVES AND INFINITIVES -- Introduction -- Framing the problem -- The anaphoric nature of the infinitival AGR-S° and the imperative AGR-C° -- Analysis: the anaphoric AGR°(-S/-C°) as an intervening governor for RM -- Some further problems and consequences -- Conclusion -- 5 CLITIC CLIMBING -- Introduction -- Clitic climbing out of wh-infinitives -- Motivating T° climbing independently of clitic climbing -- Some apparent problems -- Conclusion -- 6 NEGATIVE AND FACTIVE ISLANDS -- Introduction -- On inner islands, Neg-raising and negation-bound C° -- On factive islands and Wh-feature compatibility -- Conclusion.

7 ON TWO TYPES OF UNDERSPECIFICATION: EVIDENCE FROM AGREEMENT IN RELATIVE CLAUSES -- Syntactic underspecification -- On 0- and α-features in the domain of C° -- α- and 0- features in syntax and phonology -- Appendix: the specification of features -- 8 A UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF FRENCH INTERROGATIVE AND COMPLEMENTIZER QUI/QUE -- Introduction -- Differences between interrogative and complementizer qui and que -- A unifying analysis of qui/que -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.