Istro-Romanian Subjunctive Clauses

This paper aims to define the featural composition of the complementizers that introduce subjunctive complements in Istro-Romanian, and to identify the internal organization of the subjunctive clause in terms of subject positions, verb movement, clitic placement and constituent fronting. In a nutshe...

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Published inLanguages (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 25
Main Authors Corbeanu, Cătălina Ramona, Hill, Virginia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2024
Subjects
Analysis
Clauses
Clitics
Complementizers
Emotions
Grammatical subject
Istro-Romanian
Language
Language and languages
Language variation
Morphology
Old Romanian
Predicate
Romanian language
Sentence structure
Subjunctive
subjunctives
Syntactic movement
Syntactic structures
Syntax
Variation
Word order
Romania
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ISSN2226-471X
2226-471X
DOI10.3390/languages9010025

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Summary:This paper aims to define the featural composition of the complementizers that introduce subjunctive complements in Istro-Romanian, and to identify the internal organization of the subjunctive clause in terms of subject positions, verb movement, clitic placement and constituent fronting. In a nutshell, the observation is that the complementizer neca replaces se within the syntactic pattern of Old Romanian; that is, a pattern that displays intra- and inter-language variation with respect to the distribution of complementizers within the subjunctive CP. Tests of word order also indicate intra-language variation in the parametric settings for clitic placement (either high or low), for the argumental subject position (either in Spec,TP, yielding SVO, or in Spec,vP, yielding VSO) and for constituent movement under discourse triggers (either scrambling or fronting to CP).
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ISSN:2226-471X
2226-471X
DOI:10.3390/languages9010025