Comp in matrix sentences

[Frans Plank]

Dear Annarita,

Why Didn't You Ask Evans? -- to quote Agatha Christie.

Evans (Nick) has worked on what he calls 
Insubordination, and will provide you with 
further references.

Why not also ask Nikolaeva (Irina), who could 
tell you all, or at any rate much, about 
complementised non-finites appearing as 
(arguably) main clauses, with further references.

Good luck
Frans



>Dear Lingtyp friends,
>
>I wonder if you can give me information about 
>any language that has an explicit complementizer 
>that introduces the matrix in a declarative 
>sentence. What happens then in imperative and 
>interrogative sentences, or when in a 
>declarative sentence there is an explicit 
>performative verb?
>Eventually please send me also references.
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Prof. Annarita Puglielli
>Dipartimento di Linguistuica
>Università degli Studi Roma Tre
>Roma- Italy