Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.45.2.9
Clitics that Don't Climb
Martina Gračanin-Yuksek
; Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Abstract
In this article the behavior of clitics in subject- versus object-control infinitival constructions is explained by arguing that the two constructions have different structures. I argue that object-control infinitival constructions are CPs, and are therefore structurally richer than subject-control infinitival constructions, which are TPs and do not involve a CP projection. This results in different behavior of the clititcs in the two configurations.
Keywords
clitic climbing; Croatian language; infinitival constructions; subject control; object control
Hrčak ID:
229784
URI
Publication date:
13.12.2019.
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