Temporal specification and subject reference in Romanian subjunctives
Temporal specification and subject reference in Romanian subjunctives

Summary/Abstract: The paper looks at the dependency of Romanian subjunctive complements on the semantic class of the matrix verb. It shows that different types of temporal dependency trigger different identity relation s between the null embedded subject and the (subject) antecedent in the main clause (cf. Farkas 1984) . Volitional verbs are also looked at in terms of the restrictions they impose on the subjunctive complements they subcategorize for. Finally, following Landau’s (1999) classification of infinitive complements in English, Romanian subjunctives are argued to fall into two distinct classes exhibiting different properties in terms of subject reference and temporal dependency.

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