Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy

Galić, Josip

doi:10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3

Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, Vol. 51 No. 2, 2025.

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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

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APA 6th Edition

Galić, J. (2025). Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, 51 (2), 423-453. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3

MLA 8th Edition

Galić, Josip. "Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy." Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, vol. 51, no. 2, 2025, pp. 423-453. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3. Accessed 30 May 2026.

Chicago 17th Edition

Galić, Josip. "Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy." Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik 51, no. 2 (2025): 423-453. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3

Harvard

Galić, J. (2025). 'Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy', Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, 51(2), pp. 423-453. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3

Vancouver

Galić J. Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik [Internet]. 2025 [cited 2026 May 30];51(2):423-453. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3

IEEE

J. Galić, "Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy", Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, vol.51, no. 2, pp. 423-453, 2025. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.3

Abstract

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.