The Romanian data presented in this squib prompt the observation that movement to the preverbal F... more The Romanian data presented in this squib prompt the observation that movement to the preverbal Focus position is constrained by the availability of nominative Case checking in the left periphery of the clause. Since Focus targets a scope position within the T(ense) P(hrase) in ...
Split auxiliary systems: a cross-linguistic …, Jan 1, 2007
An irrealis BE auxiliary in Romanian* Larisa Avram and Virginia Hill University of Bucharest/Univ... more An irrealis BE auxiliary in Romanian* Larisa Avram and Virginia Hill University of Bucharest/University of New Brunswick, Saint John Tests of distribution, word order and interpretation of clauses with the tense/ perfective auxiliary fi'be'in Romanian show that:(i) there is a morpho-syntactic ...
The Romanian data presented in this squib prompt the observation that movement to the preverbal F... more The Romanian data presented in this squib prompt the observation that movement to the preverbal Focus position is constrained by the availability of nominative Case checking in the left periphery of the clause. Since Focus targets a scope position within the T(ense) P(hrase) in ...
Split auxiliary systems: a cross-linguistic …, Jan 1, 2007
An irrealis BE auxiliary in Romanian* Larisa Avram and Virginia Hill University of Bucharest/Univ... more An irrealis BE auxiliary in Romanian* Larisa Avram and Virginia Hill University of Bucharest/University of New Brunswick, Saint John Tests of distribution, word order and interpretation of clauses with the tense/ perfective auxiliary fi'be'in Romanian show that:(i) there is a morpho-syntactic ...
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