@article{8738850,
  abstract     = {{This paper investigates the relationship between finiteness and clause size, taking Romance varieties with an irrealis subordinator as a case study: che/chi in upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs), cu in Salentino, mi/mu/ma in southern Calabrian, and sa in Romanian. The last three of these, but not the first, also replace many uses of the infinitive. On a view of finiteness as the result of anchoring of Tense and Person (Groothuis 2020), these irrealis clauses constitute a different degree of finiteness when selected by a functional verb than when selected by a lexical verb. The question thus arises of whether a reduction in finiteness corresponds to a reduction in clause structure. Tests show that these irrealis subordinators form a non-homogeneous category. Only USID che/chi and Romanian sa can be analysed as regular complementisers. Salentino cu and southern Calabrian mu, in contrast, occupy a v-related position when selected by aspectuals, a T-related position when selected by modals, and FinP when selected by lexical verbs. The reduced degree of finiteness thus does not correspond to a reduced clause in all varieties. The conclusion is therefore that the same level of finiteness does not necessarily translate into the same amount of functional structure.}},
  author       = {{Groothuis, Kim}},
  issn         = {{0079-1636}},
  journal      = {{TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY}},
  keywords     = {{Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,LANGUAGES,MOVEMENT,TENSE}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{32--68}},
  title        = {{On the relation between finiteness and clause size : evidence from Romanian and southern Italo‐Romance irrealis clauses}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.12226}},
  volume       = {{120}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

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