TITLE: Complete extensions of first order logic (or language)
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: Lindstrom's theorem states that any extension of first order logic (FOL) more expressible than FOL fails to have either compactness or Lowenheim-Skolem. When I first read Lindstrom's theorem my first reaction was: "Does it mean incompleteness of any more expressible extension of FOL? And why this obviously important question isn't discussed in standard logic texts?" Standard extensions (such as second order logic) in fact are incomplete. After some attempts of proving incompleteness I found reference to Vaught's paper in which he proves completeness of extension of FOL by adding quantifier Qx = "there are uncountably many x such that..." It would be very interesting (at least for me) to understand complete extensions in general. Such an extensions may be of great importance, for instance, for computer science, because FOL isn't enough expressive for its purposes.
So, my questions are:
1) Do you know some other examples of complete FOL extensions?
2) Are there some results concerning characterization of complete FOL extensions?
3) Do you know any people, papers, books... studying general properties of FOL extensions? 
Thanks in advance.

REPLY [4 votes]: Bumping an old question, I think it's relevant that Lindstrom actually had a second theorem:

No proper strengthening of FOL has the downward Lowenheim-Skolem property and a r.e. set of validities. 

(This latter condition is what the OP calls "complete" - note that we're not assuming the existence of any proof system, it's purely a hypothesis on the "end-of-the-day" complexity.)
Put another way, downward Lowenheim-Skolem is a fundamental barrier to completeness beyond FOL. We can replace dLS here with a more technical property designed to do exactly what we need from dLS, but I'm not sure how valuable that is in this context and I don't know of any fundamentally different properties we can use in its place, so I'll provocatively claim (until my silliness is revealed) that dLS is the fundamental barrier to completeness beyond FOL.
The proof of both Lindstrom theorems can be found in Ebbinghaus-Flum-Thomas; they're very similar, but the second also brings in Trakhtenbrot's theorem. Incidentally, this paper by Barwise is a wonderful summary of various Lindstrom-style theorems. It's been a while since I read it and at a glance it doesn't discuss completeness very directly, but I can't help but mention it here.