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Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
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Chapter 12
Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions

| Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

In this paper, I will analyse Albanian structures containing the verb duket ‘seem’. I will show that the raising analysis given for English cannot be extended to Albanian since, in English, raising is a last resort strategy that moves a subject from an infinitive clause to a matrix finite one, in order to be Case-marked. In Albanian, the verb duket selects a finite clause as its complement, so, NP-movement from the embedded clause to the matrix one is not obligatory, given that the NP originates in a position where Case is assigned/checked. Thus, in Albanian, the optional movement of the NP subject will be analysed both as Topicalization and sideward movement.

Keywords: Albanian, raising, movement, case, topicalization
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Optional movement
  • 3.Obligatory movement
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2018
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