The Syntax of Romanian

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9783110886597
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Auxiliaries and the structure of IP constituents
• 1. 1. Auxiliary constructions
• 1. 2. The structure of auxiliary constructions
• 1. 3. Auxiliaries, bare infinitives and the distribution of clitics
• 1. 4. Auxiliary structures and Long Head Movement
• 1. 5. The licensing of verbs, auxiliaries and types of IP constituents
• 1. 6. The perfect auxiliary fi ‘be’
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• 2. Clitic Placement and the rule of Move I-to-C
• 2. 1. Cliticization in Romance languages
• 2. 2. Romanian clitics
• 2. 3. The rule of V-preposing and clitic Merging
• 2. 4. Move I-to-C (V-preposing) in auxiliary structures
• Conclusions
• Appendix: A diachronic note: early Romance inverted conjugations
• 3. The constituent structure of infinitives and subjunctives
• 3. 1. The constituent structure of infinitival clauses
• 3. 2. The constituent structure of subjunctive clauses
• 4. Subject anaphors in subjunctive clauses
• 4. 1. The data: control, subject raising and obviation
• 4. 2. PRO and control structures
• 4. 3. On the contextual identification of anaphors
• 4. 4. Subject raising
• 4. 5. Obviation
• 4. 6. The constituent structure of Romanian subjunctives
• 4. 7. The governing category of the subject of Romanian subjunctives
• 4. 8. The null subject of Romanian infinitives
• Conclusions
• 5. Copula passives and middle/passive se with (in)transitives
• Introduction
• 5. 1. Passives with (in)transitives
• 5. 2. Passive se with (in)transitives
• 5. 3. Remarks on certain contrasts between Romanian and Italian
• Appendix 1: Indexed elements and indexed chains
• Appendix 2: On Case assignment in passives
• 6. Clitic doubling, wh-movement and quantification
• 6. 1. Quantification and movement in wh-structures
• 6. 2. Quantification and movement in Left Dislocations
• 6. 3. Quantified NPs and Quantifier Raising
• 6. 4. Indirect objects
• Appendix - Italian CLLD
• 7. What does QR raise?
• 7. 1. Two LF rules: NPR and DR
• 7. 2. LF representations and NP denotations
• 7. 3. Locality conditions on DR
• 7. 4. DR and wh-movement
• 7. 5. On the licensing of A’-bound empty categories
• 7. 6. Three LF representations for how many
• 7. 7. DR, referentiality and locality
• 7. 8. Weak islands and scope
• Appendix 1: Non referentiality without DR
• Appendix 2: Strong determiners
• Bibliography
• Index of names
• Index of subjects