Non-finite Verb Movement in Romance

Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI:10.1515/PRBS-2021-0010

Kim A. Groothuis

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Abstract Since Pollock, Jean-Yves. 1989. Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20. 365–424, it is well known that Romance finite verbs move into the I-domain. However, the relationship between finiteness and verb movement has not yet been investigated in detail. The aim of the present study is to trace and analyse verb movement in various types of non-finite and semi-finite clauses in Romance, including infinitives with specified subjects, inflected infinitives, bare infinitival clauses, Aux-to-Comp (cf. Rizzi, Luigi. 1982. Issues in Italian syntax. Dordrecht: Foris), past participial clauses, and gerunds. It is shown that all types of Romance non-finite verbs move high, with the exception of French absolute participles and French infinitives. The picture of non-finite movement is thus more uniform than that of finite verb movement (cf. Schifano, Norma. 2018. Verb movement in Romance. A comparative study. Oxford: Oxford University Press). A unified account is proposed: non-finite verbs all need to be anchored to the speech act through a higher clause, which requires them to be in a local relation with the anchoring head Fin (cf. Groothuis, Kim A. 2020. Reflexes of finiteness in Romance. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Unpublished PhD thesis).

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浪漫主义中的非限定动词运动

自波洛克以来，让-伊夫。1989. 动词运动、通用语法和IP结构。语言探究365-424，这是众所周知的罗曼语有限动词进入i域。然而，有限性与动词运动之间的关系尚未得到详细的研究。本研究的目的是追踪和分析浪漫语中各种类型的非有限和半有限分句中的动词运动，包括带指定主语的不定式、屈折不定式、不定式分句、从左到右的比较(参见Rizzi, Luigi. 1982)。意大利语语法中的问题。多德雷赫特语:Foris)，过去分词从句和动名词。结果表明，除了法语绝对分词和法语不定式外，所有类型的罗曼语非限定动词都移动得很高。因此，非有限运动的画面比有限动词运动的画面更均匀(参见Schifano, Norma. 2018)。浪漫主义中的动词运动。比较研究。牛津:牛津大学出版社)。提出了一种统一的解释:非有限动词都需要通过更高的子句锚定到言语行为上，这就要求它们与锚定头Fin处于局部关系中(cf. Groothuis, Kim A. 2020)。浪漫主义中的有限性反射。剑桥:剑桥大学(未发表博士论文)。

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