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Chapter | Subjunctive Complements in Slavic and Romance

Subjunctive Complements in Slavic and Romance

A Comparative Perspective

Abstract

The paper will focus on subjunctive complements in Slavic languages, comparing them with their counterparts in Romance languages, where the subjunctive has been much more extensively studied than in Slavic. We will observe that, despite the surface morphological contrasts in subjunctive marking between these two language groups, subjunctives in Slavic and Romance nonetheless share the bulk of the underlying semantic and syntactic clausal properties. As a result, Romance and Slavic subjunctive will be analysed as constituting a common clausal mood category, which corresponds to a distinct syntactic clause type.


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Submitted: Nov. 6, 2019 | Accepted: Nov. 11, 2019 | Published Dec. 18, 2019 | Language: en

Keywords Subjunctive complements • Slavic languages • Mood and moality • Verbal mood • Clausal mood • Romance languages

Copyright © 2019 Tomislav Sočanac. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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