Bd. 85 (2024): Atti del convegno: I dialetti di Puglia e Salento: due diverse facce del Meridione
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Patterns of infinitival and finite complementation in Griko and Salentino

Giuseppina Silvestri
University of California

Veröffentlicht 2024-09-11

Schlagwörter

  • Griko,
  • Salentino,
  • infinitive,
  • finite complementation,
  • auxiliary,
  • restructuring,
  • causative
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Zitationsvorschlag

Patterns of infinitival and finite complementation in Griko and Salentino. (2024). L’Italia Dialettale, 85. https://doi.org/10.4454/py5zzb77

Abstract

Griko and Salentino show various degrees of diachronic and diatopic microvaria- tion in the retreat and loss of the infinitive, whilst displaying at the same time a high degree of overall structural uniformity in their parallel preservation of the infinitive in: (1) restruc- turing contexts; (2) infinitival relatives; and (3) negative imperatives. On the surface, there is nothing a priori to suggest that these three contexts should be connected in any way. Yet this article demonstrates how these three uses can be reduced to a single structural explanation which views the infinitive as a reduced clausal constituent (viz. v-VP) generated in a mon- oclausal structure selected in all cases by a modal, temporal or aspectual auxiliary which is phonologically overt in (1), but oscillates between overt and covert phonological realizations in (2) and (3) in accordance with crosslinguistic variation. The result is a unified analysis which allows us to capture the distribution of infinitival complementation in all the rele- vant varieties quite simply in terms of a so-called restructuring configuration in which the infinitive invariably instantiates a monoclausal structure selected by a T-related auxiliary. At the same time, this analysis also offers us a highly natural explanation of the distribution of finite and infinitival complementation in Salentino after causative make.

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