Subjunctive complements in Slavic languages: a syntax-semantics interface approach

Diplôme Thèse Subjunctive complements in Slavic languages: a syntax-semantics interface approach eng 2017-10-14 author Socanac Tomislav 584366 director Puskas Genoveva 22850 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:98563 urn:nbn:ch:unige-985636 L. 903 The topic of my thesis is the subjunctive mood in Slavic languages, which is a subject that has not received sufficient attention in theoretical linguistic literature so far. Even though Slavic languages do not feature dedicated subjunctive verb forms, Slavic subjunctives can be distinguished from indicatives because they are introduced through distinct clause-initial items. This observation led to the claim that subjunctive and indicative complements in Slavic correspond to two different embedded clause types, selected under formally distinct CP projections. Indicative CP was argued to constitute a marked syntactic option in embedded clausal environments, in the sense that it is selected by a specific group of predicates which share a common lexical feature, whereas subjunctive CP is selected as a default embedded option, by predicates which do not contain the relevant feature. This analysis allowed me to account for the lexical diversity of predicates that select the subjunctive in Slavic. Slavic language family Subjunctive Indicative Mood and modality Syntax-semantics interface Minimalism Dewey 420/820 Swiss National Science Foundation 126861 CH Swiss National Science Foundation 145670 CH 84 Département de langue et de littérature anglaises 3B false 9005c5e5-f3b2-45b4-935e-5d1adf8bf404 Thesis Public Slavic subjunctive.pdf 1868470 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de langue et de littérature anglaises

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