Balkan Syntax and Semantics

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Balkan Syntax and Semantics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC page
Table of contents
Preface
Notes
Map of the Balkans
List of abbreviations
The Balkan Sprachbund properties
1. Overview
1.1. Origin
1.2. Membership
1.3. Shared properties
2. Nominal cases and articles
2.1. Vocative case forms
2.2. Accusative case forms and case markers
2.3. Dative/genitive case forms and case markers
2.4. Position and use of the definite articles
3. Pronominal clitics
3.1. Pronominal clitics functioning in the clause
3.2. Clitic doubling
3.3. Impersonal pronominal clitics
3.4. Possessive pronominal clitics
4. Subjunctives
4.1. Subjunctives as complements of modal and intentional verbs
4.2. Subjunctive constructions as modifiers
4.3. Bare subjunctive constructions
4.4. Future tenses
5. Evidentials
5.1. Balkan Slavic
5.2. Albanian
5.3. Balkan Romance
5.4. Confirmative and nonconfirmative evidentials
6. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Spread of the Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic properties
On the areal distribution of syntactic properties in the languages of the Balkans
1. The goal of Balkan linguistics
2. Critics of the concepts Balkanism and Balkan Sprachbund
3. Between the normal Slavic type and the standard average European type
4. Standard Language versus dialect
5. The Balkan Language Atlas
5.1. History of the project
5.2. The Small Dialectological Atlas of the Balkan Languages
6. The areal distribution of some syntactic properties in the languages of the Balkans
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix: Maps
The typology of Balkan evidentiality and areal linguistics
1. Introduction
2. General considerations
3. Balkan Slavic
4. Albanian
5. Balkan Romance
6. Romani
7. Greek
8. Explanations
Notes
References
The nominal phrase
Polydefinite constructions in Modern Greek and in Aromanian
1. Introduction
2. Some background information
3. Differences between polydefinite and monadic constructions
3.1. Syntactic differences
3.2. Semantic differences
3.3. Phonological/Prosodic differences
3.4. Polydefinites and the direct/indirect-modification distinction
4. Other syntactic analyses
4.1. Tredinnick (1992)
4.2. Androutsopoulou (1995)
4.3. Kolliakou (1999)
4.4. Alexiadou and Wilder (1998)
4.5. Campos (2000)
4.6. Manolessou (2000)
5. A proposal for polydefinite structures
5.1. Articled adjectives and predicativity
5.2. A structure for the polydefinite construction
6. Summary
Notes
References
Balkan possessive clitics
1. Overview
2. Background
3. Possessive clitics - dative or genitive?
3.1. The morpho-phonological identity of possessive and indirect object clitics
3.2. Historical considerations
3.3. Possessor raising of clitics
3.4. Possessive clitics, non-clitic pronouns, and non-pronominal DPs
3.5. Clitic doubling
3.6. Summary of case issues
4. Heads or arguments?
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
Optional movement of Bulgarian possessive clitics to I
1. Introduction
2. Movement of possessive clitics to the head of IP
3. Binding, complementarity, and locality
4. Movement of possessive clitics - implications for locality constraints on binding
5. Locality constraints on binding in Bulgarian
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
The root clause
Datives and the non-active voice
1. Introduction
2. Dative Existential Disclosure
2.1. Balkan D-Disclosure constructions
3. The analysis of D-Disclosure
4. The E-Strategy
4.1. The E-Strategy and Argument Saturation (passives/impersonals)
4.2. The E-Strategy and Argument Suppression (anticausatives)
4.3. The Syntactic distribution of D-Disclosure and the E-Strategy
4.4. The E-Strategy and compositionality
5. Summary and conclusions
Notes
References
On the clitic switch in Greek imperatives
1. Introduction
2. Imperatives
3. Accusative-dative clitic switch
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Complementizer-headed main clauses for volitional moods in the languages of South-Eastern Europe
1. The phenomenon
2. Terminology for the volitional moods
3. Labeling the functions of complementizer-headed main clauses in a Balkan language: Albanian
4. Optative-hortatives in Europe and beyond
5. The makeup of the independent modal complementizer clauses in the languages of the Eastern half of Southern Europe
6. Change in complementation in the languages of South-Eastern Europe
7. Retracing the development of modal complementation
8. Conclusion
Notes
References
Mood and force features in the languages of the Balkans
1. Introduction
2. The Mood head in the languages of the Balkans
3. Two classes of imperatives
4. True Balkan imperatives and clitics
4.1. [Imperative V + Cl] orders
4.2. The subjunctive particle
4.3. [Cl + Imperative V] orders
5. Balkan imperatives and negation
5.1. The nature of the negative marker
5.2. The type of checking mechanism involved
5.3. The exact head that checks the imperative force in Mood
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
On left periphery and focus
1. Introduction
2. Word order in Romanian and Bulgarian
2.1. Topic-Focus in root clauses
2.2. Topic and Focus in embedded clauses
2.3. Preverbal subjects
2.4. Adjacency between Focus and Verb
3. Syncretism of [focus/tense]
3.1. Indicative complements
3.2. Subjunctives
3.3. Infinitives
4. Targets for Focus
5. Summary and conclusion
Notes
References
Syncretic and analytic tenses in Romanian
1. Introduction
2. Giorgi and Pianesi's (1997) framework: From Latin to Romance
3. Early Romanian futures
4. Contrasts between Modern Romanian and Western Romance
5. T1 and T2 in modern Romanian
6. AgrS in modern Romanian
7. Subjunctive and sa in modern Romanian
8. Back to the future
9. Conclusions: Future in the Past
Notes
References
The complex sentence
Subjunctive relatives in Balkan languages
1. Introduction
2. Syntactic properties of object subjunctive relatives
3. Semantic structure of object subjunctive relatives
4. Functions and properties of OSR
4.1. Lexical and modal semantics of the matrix verb
4.2. Reference relations: Humanness and reference constraints
4.3. Aspectual semantics of the verb in the subjunctive relative
5. Irrealis propositional modalities
6. Purpose - modification continuum
6.1. The graphic representation of scalarity in meaning
6.2. Balkan illustrations of scalarity between modification and purpose
7. Possessive vs. existential subjunctive relatives
7.1. Bleaching of possessive meaning
7.2. Negated possessive `have'
7.3. Existential subjunctive relatives
8. Subject control
8.1. Predicative subjunctive relatives
8.2. Subject subjunctive relatives
9. Conclusion
Notes
References
The syntax-semantics of modal existential wh constructions
1. Introduction
2. The bare CP status of MECs
3. Similarities and differences between MECs and interrogatives
4. Properties of MECs and their analysis
4.1. Properties of MECs
5. Summary and conclusions
Notes
References
Interpreting empty subjects in nontensed complement clauses
1. Introduction
2. Control theory
3. Crosslinguistic variation and the acquisition of control
4. Control in Serbian and Croatian
5. Interpretation of empty subjects in (non)-finite complement clauses in Serbian and Croatian
5.1. Experimental design
5.2. Results
6. Discussion
Notes
References
On Judeo-Spanish conditionals
1. Introduction
2. Conditionals in Spanish and Judeo-Spanish
3. Conditionals in Greek and Turkish
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Author index
Index of languages, dialects and toponyms
Subject index
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