The root infinitive stage in a null subject language: Romance in the Balkans

The aim of the present paper is to determine which early non-finite verbal form is the Root Infinitive analogue in Romanian, an Inflection-licensed null subject language. In particular, we investigate whether the RI-analogue is the imperative, as predicted by Salustri and Hyams’s (2003) hypothesis,...

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Main Authors: Larisa Avram, Martine Coene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2007-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_root_infinitive_stage_in_a_null_subject_language_romance_in_the_balkans