| Title: | Deconstructing the “adverb plus complementizer construction” in Romanian |
| Author: | Cornelia Daniela Lupşa |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XIII (2) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | In this paper I examine the “adverb plus complementizer” construction (Ramat and Ricca 1998: 212) in Romanian, seeking to establish its characteristics in more detail than usually achieved in the literature on adverbs. I show that, at least in Romanian, this construction displays regularities that can shed light on our understanding of the basic mechanism of sentence-building and how adverbs are integrated in a sentence. I also argue that a correct description of this construction requires the integration of two opposing theories on adverbs that have come to be represented by Cinque 1999 and Ernst 2002. |
| Key words: | the adverb plus complementizer construction, sentence adverb, root complementizer, adverb movement, left periphery |
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