Sardinian inflected infinitives and control

Some Sardinian varieties feature inflected infinitives, which agree in person and number with their nominative subject. For inflected infinitives in other languages, such as European Portuguese, it has been shown that there is a split between obligatory exhaustive local subject control and other obligatory control types, in that inflected infinitives are banned in the former but not in the latter (Sheehan 2013, forthcoming). This paper presents new Sardinian data and analyses the relationship between the different types of control and the possibility of inflection on the embedded infinitive in Sardinian. It is shown that there is a split between control types which is similar to the one described in the literature. Two possible hypotheses for a formal analysis are explored.

ISBN:9786061909087

Publication year:2017

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