Kim A. Groothuis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kim A. Groothuis is involved.
Articles
2021 The downward grammaticalisation of irrealis subordinators in Romanian, Salentino and southern Calabrese Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 157–170 | Chapter
Romanian să, Salentino cu and southern Calabrese mu/ma/mi are irrealis subordinators, which also replace the infinitive in many of its uses. The present chapter investigates the diachrony of these elements. It is shown that they are all instances of downward grammaticalisation, deriving from… read more
2019 Chapter 11. Postverbal subject positions in ‘semi-finite’ clauses in Southern Italo-Romance and Sardinian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt, Feldhausen, Ingo, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus (eds.), pp. 219–236 | Chapter
Both Sardinian inflected infinitives on the one hand and Southern Calabrese and Salentino subjunctive complement clauses on the other can be considered semi-finite since, among other things, they are marked for person and number agreement with the subject, as finite clauses, but lack tense marking,… read more