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Some notes on central causal clauses in Venetian

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to provide novel evidence in favor of an integration of Haegeman’s (2002) taxonomy of adverbial clause subordination by discussing some data from C-introduced causal constructs in Venetian, the Italo-Romance dialect spoken in the city of Venice. Haegeman’s model is based on a two-class categorization of adverbial structures into central clauses, in which matrix-clause phenomena (such as the licensing of some sentence-initial or sentence-final discourse particle-like items, XP-fronting) are excluded, and peripheral clauses, in which these phenomena are licit. The external-syntactic distinction predicted by this model, namely a semantic differentiation resulting from TP/VP-adjunction for central vs. CP-adjunction for peripheral adverbial clauses, has severe consequences for the internal syntax of the a/m constructions, the most striking being the absence of the upper projections of the Split CP of central constructs. The data presented in this paper, however, suggest that (at least) in Venetian, (some) main-clause phenomena may also be licensed in central adverbial clauses under specific circumstances. Additionally, it will be shown that the conclusions drawn from the observation of the Venetian data match the behavior of the same constructions in Standard Italian, as well as in other languages, under the very same conditions.


Nicholas Catasso Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften Germanistik – Linguistik Gaußstr. 20 42119 Wuppertal Germany

Abbreviations

ACC

accusative

AUX

auxiliary

CAC

central adverbial clause

COND

conditional

CORR

correlative

CL

clitic

DAT

dative

DEF

definite

DET

determiner

F

feminine

IMP

imperative

IMPERF

imperfect

INDEF

indefinite

INF

infinitive

INTERJ

interjection

LOC

local

MC

main clause

NEG

negation (particle)

NOM

nominative

OBL

oblique

PAC

peripheral adverbial clause

PAST.PART

past participle

PERS.PRON

personal pronoun

PL

plural

PRES

present

PRET

preterit(e)

PS

person

REFL

reflexive (pronoun)

REL

relativizer

SG

singular

SUBJ

subjunctive

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