The emergence of 'Adverb + Complementiser' constructions in Catalan
- Autores: Afra Pujol Campeny
- Localización: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik: Revista d'Estudis Catalans, ISSN-e 2199-7276, ISSN 0932-2221, Nº. 37, 2024, págs. 313-345
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article explores the emergence and syntax of structures conveying speaker-oriented epistemic judgements involving an epistemic adverb and a comple-mentiser in Catalan. Firstly, we show that in Modern Catalan this construction involves (i) an epistemic adverb located in a head related to the encoding of clausal modality within the left periphery, (ii) a silent truth predicate, and (iii) a clause headed by high queas the predicate’s complement. Secondly, the emergence of the first ‘epistemic adverb + complementiser’ structures in Old Catalan is explored. This new analysis opens up questions regarding the evolution of ‘epistemic adverb + complementiser’ construc-tions in the Iberian Peninsula and the Romania, as well as the structure of the left periphery
