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 ; Sveučilište u Zadru

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

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/229761

Publication date:

13.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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