Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.45.2.3
Can Croatian Anaphor svoj Be a Long-Distance Anaphor? A Proposal Based on the Analysis of Infinitival Complements
Mia Batinić Angster
orcid.org/0000-0001-9470-2326
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to question the locality of the possessive anaphor svoj. In some Slavic languages (possessive) anaphors behave like long-distance anaphors in infinitival clause (cfr. Faltz 1985, Pica 1987, Rappaport 1986, Dotlačil 2005, Reinders- -Machowska 1991). In this paper we tackle the possibility that also Croatian svoj might display long-distance binding in that context. In the analysis we follow the classification of infinitival complements into restructuring and non-restructuring ones: while the former are generated as VP complements, the latter are clause complements (cfr. Rizzi 1976, Wurmbrand 2003, Grano 2015, Landau 2000). On the basis of two criteria – the (im)possibility of licensing negative polarity items and of introducing both infinitival and finite complements – we propose a new classification of Croatian verbs taking infinitival complements which show that svoj cannot be bound outside its governing category.
Keywords
anaphora; infinitives; infinitival complements; restructuring; control; negation
Hrčak ID:
229761
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Publication date:
13.12.2019.
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