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A typology of subjunctive complements in Balkan languages

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Publication: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XI (1)
p-ISSN:2069-9239
Publisher:Universitatea din București
Place:București
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Abstract:This paper proposes a comparative approach to the subjunctive complements to verbs and nouns in two language groups: Romance Balkan (i.e. Standard Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian) and Slavic Balkan (mostly Serbian, Croatian, and Macedonian). There are many analyses of V-subjunctive complement selection in these languages but, to our knowledge, none that zooms in on the group differences in the composition of the left periphery of subjunctive clauses. In these configurations, our analysis finds a micro-variation that has implications for the understanding of other cross-linguistic variations among these languages, in particular, in the subjunctive complementation to nouns. In other words, we argue that the typology of verb complementation is the key to the understanding of the typology of noun complementation in these languages.
Key words:subjunctive complements, typology of verb complementation, Romance Balkan, Slavic Balkan
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