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.
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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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Table of contents
- Perceptual mapping of linguistic variation in Saudi Arabic dialects
- Some notes on central causal clauses in Venetian
- Between feature mapping and thematic prominence: Old english se-demonstratives and pronouns in discourse
- What the frequency list can teach us about Turkish sign language?
- Engagement markers in research project websites: Promoting interactivity and dialogicity
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- Book review