Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3
Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy
Josip Galić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-9241
; Staroslavenski institut, Zagreb
Sažetak
In this paper, complement clauses in Croatian Church Slavonic (CCS) are examined in light of the implicational complementation hierarchy (ICH) proposed by Susanne Wurmbrand and Magdalena Lohninger (2023). Wurmbrand and Lohninger classify complement clauses into three semantically defined types (Propositions, Situations, and Events). These types are ordered hierarchically according to their degree of syntactic complexity and can be distinguished by the distribution of morphosyntactic properties. The proposed hierarchy is implicational, which means that the distribution of morphosyntactic properties of adjacent complement types in the hierarchy is predictable to a certain degree. To test the ICH in CCS complementation configurations, we analyze the distribution of morphosyntactic properties such as the presence and distribution of complementizers, the finiteness of complements, the availability of overt subjects, the possibility of ECM constructions, and the clitic climbing. The analysis shows that CCS complementation patterns support the division of clausal complements into three types and that the distribution of morphosyntactic properties of these types aligns with the ICH.
Ključne riječi
Croatian Church Slavonic; clausal complementation; implicational complementation hierarchy; complementizers; finiteness; ECM; clitic climbing
Hrčak ID:
344798
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.1.2026.
Posjeta: 488 *