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Change and variation in West Iberian complementation : QUIA/CA from late Latin to early Romance

Alice Corr and Kim Groothuis (UGent)
(2026) Diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages. p.265-290
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This chapter investigates the evolution of an underreported diachronic divergence in West Iberian clausal syntax involving the completive use of the complementizer CA (<Latin QUIA). Our aims are: i) to establish the principal factors regulating selection of QUIA/CA in Iberian texts written in Latin/Romance between 6th -14th centuries; ii) develop a theoretical account of how the grammatical properties of West Iberian reflexes of QUIA are configured in the clausal syntax. Examination of a newly-compiled corpus covering the LatinRomance transition reveals that the clause type and (morphological) finiteness of QUIA/CA-complements remain unchanged. By contrast, they undergo a functional specialization in their mood/modality, culminating in an indicative/realis restriction and loss of factive construal of the embedded proposition. We propose that the grammatical properties of CA-complements are syntactically instantiated by the conjunction of two formal mechanisms: (declarative) clause-typing via complementizer insertion in Force; and the licensing of realis/indicative features via verb movement into Fin.
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complementation, Latin, West Iberian, Romance, clausal left periphery

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Corr, Alice, and Kim Groothuis. “Change and Variation in West Iberian Complementation : QUIA/CA from Late Latin to Early Romance.” Diachronic Divergences in West Iberian Languages, edited by Manuel Delicado Cantero et al., De Gruyter, 2026, pp. 265–90, doi:10.1515/9783111279497-010.
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Corr, A., & Groothuis, K. (2026). Change and variation in West Iberian complementation : QUIA/CA from late Latin to early Romance. In M. Delicado Cantero, F. Tejedo-Herrero, & P. Amaral (Eds.), Diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages (pp. 265–290). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111279497-010
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Corr, Alice, and Kim Groothuis. 2026. “Change and Variation in West Iberian Complementation : QUIA/CA from Late Latin to Early Romance.” In Diachronic Divergences in West Iberian Languages, edited by Manuel Delicado Cantero, Fernando Tejedo-Herrero, and Patrícia Amaral, 265–90. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111279497-010.
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Corr, Alice, and Kim Groothuis. 2026. “Change and Variation in West Iberian Complementation : QUIA/CA from Late Latin to Early Romance.” In Diachronic Divergences in West Iberian Languages, ed by. Manuel Delicado Cantero, Fernando Tejedo-Herrero, and Patrícia Amaral, 265–290. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111279497-010.
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Corr A, Groothuis K. Change and variation in West Iberian complementation : QUIA/CA from late Latin to early Romance. In: Delicado Cantero M, Tejedo-Herrero F, Amaral P, editors. Diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages. De Gruyter; 2026. p. 265–90.
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A. Corr and K. Groothuis, “Change and variation in West Iberian complementation : QUIA/CA from late Latin to early Romance,” in Diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages, M. Delicado Cantero, F. Tejedo-Herrero, and P. Amaral, Eds. De Gruyter, 2026, pp. 265–290.
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