ROMANIAN ASPECTUAL VERBS:
RESTRUCTURING AND FUNCTIONAL HEADS
ROMANIAN ASPECTUAL VERBS:
RESTRUCTURING AND FUNCTIONAL HEADS
Author(s): Elena LăcătușSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: aspectual verbs; Romanian; restructuring; functional projections; control; raising;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper evaluates Fukuda’s (2007a, 2008) Functional Head Analysis of aspectual verbs on the basis of the analysis of aspectual verbs in Romanian with focus on whether they induce restructuring, whether they occupy functional projections, and whether the structural position which they occupy is reflected in their control and/or raising behaviour. The data indicates that Romanian aspectual verbs behave like lexical verbs. They merge in the same syntactic position, irrespective of the complement which they select and which can be uniformly analysed as ModP/FinP. Their control or raising behaviour is not correlated with different syntactic positions.
Journal: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
- Issue Year: 20/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 47-70
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English, Romanian