| Title: | (Un)marked patterns of verb-movement: the case of Romanian |
| Author: | Norma Schifano |
| Publication: | Limba română: diacronie și sincronie în studiul limbii române, I, p. 191 |
| Editors: | Rodica Zafiu, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae |
| Publisher: | Editura Universității din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | This article investigates the placement of the present indicative lexical verb in Romanian inside a richly-articulated clausal spine, along the cartographic lines. By testing its position with respect to a number of adverbs lexicalizing the Spec of hierarchically ordered functional projections (Cinque 1999), it shows that Romanian is a high verb-movement language, with V reaching the highest Mood-related field, as witnessed by the placement of V before all the tested adverbs, including very high ones. On the other hand, it is argued that the opposite placement, i.e. the one in which V follows all the tested adverbs, should be analysed as the output of the displacement of the adverb to a position of Contrastive Focus in the left periphery, rather than the output of the low placement of V, as supported by a number of interpretative and distributional arguments. |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
Citations to this publication: 4
| 0 | Alexandru Nicolae | Grammaticalization as Pattern Formation: Romanian Auxiliaries from a Diachronic Romance Perspective | RRL, LXV (4), 395-422 | 2020 | pdf html |
| 4 | Alexandru Nicolae | Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian A Comparative Romance Perspective | Oxford University Press | 2019 | |
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 57, 2014). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2014 | LR, LXIV (2), 183 | 2015 | |
| 16 | Alexandru Nicolae | Ordinea constituenţilor în limba română: o perspectivă diacronică Structura propoziţiei şi deplasarea verbului | Editura Universității din București | 2015 |
References in this publication: 3
| 4 | Norma Schifano | Le lingue romanze: verso una cartografia del movimento del verbo | CILPR2013/4, 415-426 | 2016 | pdf html |
| 13 | Adam Ledgeway | Romance Auxiliary Selection in Light of Romanian Evidence | DVR, 3-34 | 2015 | |
| 52 | Adam Ledgeway |
| Oxford University Press; Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold | 2012; 2017 |
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