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Article published In: Variation in C: Comparative approaches to the Complementizer Phrase
Edited by Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi
[Linguistic Variation 18:2] 2018
► pp. 215–264

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Finite and non-finite complementation, particles and control in Aromanian, compared to other Romance varieties and Albanian

 | Università degli Studi di Firenze
 | Università degli Studi di Firenze
Published online: 1 February 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.16003.man
Abstract
Our Aromanian data come from Diviakë, Libofshë and Fier, three locations close to one another in southern Albania, and from Këllez, also in southern Albania. We argue that the impossibility of embedding sentences directly under V-v (Agree Resistance Theorem) leads to the overall shape of complementation in Romance. Section 2, on finite complementizers, shows that Aromanian supports analyses of complementizers as wh- pronouns independently developed for other Romance languages. Section 3 elaborates a proposal originally put forth for Albanian, where the subjunctive particle is identical to the Linker – namely that the main role of subjunctive particles is introducing a variable EPP argument, subject to control. Section 4 argues that Prepositional introducers of non-finite sentences amount to an obliquization strategy to circumvent Agree Resistance – as does the nominalization (relativization) strategy of Section 2 (and the predication strategy in Section 3).
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Finite complementation
    • 2.1Complementizers as wh- pronouns
    • 2.2Two-complementizer systems
    • 2.3Intermediate summary. Agree Resistance
  • 3.Subjunctive particles and control
    • 3.1The distribution of subjunctive particles
    • 3.2 prts and the theory of control
    • 3.3Analysis of Aromanian
    • 3.4Main clause subjunctives. Intermediate conclusions
  • 4.Non-finite complements and Prepositional introducers
    • 4.1The evidence
    • 4.2Prepositions as sentential introducers
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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