CONTROL CONDITIONS TO ROMANIAN SUBJUNCTIVE AND INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
CONTROL CONDITIONS TO ROMANIAN SUBJUNCTIVE AND INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
Author(s): Adriana TodeaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: PRO; pro; NULL case; anaphoric Tense; obligatory control (OC); non-obligatory control (NOC).
Summary/Abstract: Control Conditions to Romanian Subjunctive and Infinitive Constructions. As the Romanian control data fails to accommodate the standard NULL-case-checking theory, which seems rather tailored on the specificity of English non-finiteness, the syntactic conditions that generate obligatory or nonobligatory control readings in Romanian are identified and interpreted from a new perspective: specific conditions that may support the reevaluation of PRO as a phonologically unselected DP rather than a specific syntactic primitive.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 54/2009
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 193-218
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English