<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the paper, we discuss the phenomenon of clitic climbing out of finite da<sub>2</sub>-complements in contemporary Serbian. Scholars’ opinions on the acceptability and occurrence of this construction, based on a handful of self-made examples, vary considerably. Expanding on the assumption that the correctness of the phenomenon has often been denied due to its rareness we employ large corpora to examine the problem. We focus on possible constraints arising from the syntactic properties of clause-embedding predicates.</p></abstract>

In the paper, we discuss the phenomenon of clitic climbing out of finite da2-complements in contemporary Serbian. Scholars’ opinions on the acceptability and occurrence of this construction, based on a handful of self-made examples, vary considerably. Expanding on the assumption that the correctness of the phenomenon has often been denied due to its rareness we employ large corpora to examine the problem. We focus on possible constraints arising from the syntactic properties of clause-embedding predicates.

Clitic Climbing, Finiteness and the Raising-Control Distinction. A Corpus–based study

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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In the paper, we discuss the phenomenon of clitic climbing out of finite da2-complements in contemporary Serbian. Scholars’ opinions on the acceptability and...

Clitic Climbing, Finiteness and the Raising-Control Distinction. A Corpus–based study

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 179 - 190

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0028

Keywords
srWac, constraints on clitic climbing, semifinite complements, syntax, Serbian

© 2017 Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Clitic Climbing, Finiteness and the Raising-Control Distinction. A Corpus–based study

Published Online: Jan 24, 2018

Page range: 179 - 190

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0028

KeywordssrWac, constraints on clitic climbing, semifinite complements, syntax, Serbian

© 2017 Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
srWac, constraints on clitic climbing, semifinite complements, syntax, Serbian