Same syntax, different lexical entries: Mood selection in Romance and Balkan
Actes du colloque 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM / Proceedings of 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM
Résumé
When it comes to embedded mood selection, Romance and Balkan languages differ on two main points: (i) emotive factive ('regret'-type) contexts lead to subjunctive in Romance but not in Balkan, and (ii) mood is morphologically realized as verbal inflection in Romance but on complementizers in Balkan. In this paper, we provide a nanosyntactic account of the major points of crosslinguistic variation regarding mood selection in these two language types. We propose that the two types share the same basic syntax, but that syntactic structures are realized differently depending on language-specific idiosyncrasies of the lexicon, i.e. what kinds of lexical entries are available in French vs. Balkan. 1 We would like to thank the editors of this volume, Monelle Guertin, Yoann Léveillé, and Reine Pinsonneault, as well as the audience of the Colloque 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM. We are also very grateful to the two reviewers of our article, who provided very helpful comments. Thanks also to Genoveva Puskás and Ur Shlonsky for their valuable input at earlier stages of this work. All errors are of course our own.
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