When Restructuring and Clause Union Meet in Catalan and Beyond

This paper considers what happens when clause union meets restructuring by examining contexts where the causative FACERE verb takes a restructuring verb as its complement in Catalan, in comparison with French and Italian. We show that in Catalan and Italian and to some degree also French, in such co...

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Autores: Pineda i Cirera, Anna|||0000-0002-2810-9302, Sheehan, Michelle|||0000-0002-8072-4847
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:269784
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/269784
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.383
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Causative constructions
Restructuring verbs
Clause union
Transitivity
Case alternations
Clitic climbing
Transivitat
Construccions causatives
Verbs de reestructuració
Alternances de cas
Unió de clàusules
Salt de clític
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Sumario:This paper considers what happens when clause union meets restructuring by examining contexts where the causative FACERE verb takes a restructuring verb as its complement in Catalan, in comparison with French and Italian. We show that in Catalan and Italian and to some degree also French, in such contexts, the case realisation of the causee as accusative/dative depends on the transitivity of the next clause down. We call this effect, first discussed by Burzio (1986) for Italian, 'restructuring for transitivity'. We then move our attention to the interaction between restructuring for transitivity and other restructuring and clause union phenomena such as clitic climbing and se deletion, and discuss several theoretical challenges posed by these interactions.