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Verba Dicendi Parentheticals in Croatian
Milan Mihaljević
orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-2388
; Staroslavenski institut, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The paper describes the distribution and the structure of verba dicendi parentheticals in Croatian. A parenthetical may be inserted at clause level (most often) or at constituent level (less often). Parenthetical placement is quite liberal. Usually, it does not break the phrase, but it is inserted either in front of or after the maximal projection. Utterances containing verba dicendi parentheticals can be divided into two groups: speaker oriented and subject oriented. The factors determining whether the utterance is speaker or subject oriented are: the direction of pronominalization, inversion of the subject and the finite verb, different behavior in the scope of negative expressions, and the difference in intonation. That the parenthetical expression form single syntactic constituent with the host expression is also confirmed by the asymmetry in relationship between quantifiers and pronouns, as well as by the similarity of such utterances with wh-questions (wh-movement), such as: optional inversion of the subject and the finite verb (which is conditioned pragmatically), long distance (unbounded) dependencies and similar behavior in respect to island conditions. Heterogeneous behavior of two types of utterances suggests that they, most probably, have different structure. The author concludes that the difference between them is not in the way in which the parenthetical expression is integrated (merged) into the host expression, but only in the internal structure of the parenthetical expression itself. In subject oriented utterances, the silent copy of the host expression is merged in the complement position of the parenthetical verb, while the speaker oriented utterances have only an empty operator OP in this position, which is moved in the Spec position and co-indexed with the host expression. Since the derivation of the subject oriented utterances cannot adequately be described as the result of movement, the author proposes an alternative hypothesis, i.e. that they are elliptical expressions in which CP complement of the parenthetical verb, which is identical to the host expression, has been deleted.
Ključne riječi
parenthesis; verbs of speaking; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
117891
URI
Datum izdavanja:
18.3.2014.
Posjeta: 3.240 *