Schedule 72. StuTS

SAY-complements are clausal arguments marked by a particle grammaticalized from a general utterance verb, a so-called SAY-complementizer. Verbs of saying are crosslinguistically one of the most common verbal sources for complementizers.
In my Bachelor’s thesis, I investigated a genetically diverse sample of 10 languages that use such a complementizer for a number of variables regarding the structure of the different kinds of complements, as well as the distribution and shape of the complementizer itself.
Some of the variables pattern strongly with each other, as well as with the more general parameter of constituent order.

I discuss in this talk my variable of complement finiteness and its resulting patterns.
The variable is concerned with embedded verbs and whether they can appear in embedded sentences in finite forms, non-finite forms, or either.
Within the sample, a strong pattern arises when comparing the finiteness of verbs in SAY-complements to those in non-SAY-complements: Whether and how SAY-embedded verbs are restricted in finiteness in a language is implied by the restrictions on verbs embedded otherwise.
SAY-complements in all the languages can contain finite verbs. In some languages, they appear as an alternative to non-finites. In others, finites constitute the sole possible form. These different kinds of relations between finiteness in SAY- and non-SAY-complements allowed a basic grouping of the sample languages into types that also appeared relevant regarding the patterning of other parameters under investigation.

SAY-complements are clausal arguments marked by a particle grammaticalized from a general utterance verb, a so-called SAY-complementizer. Verbs of saying are crosslinguistically one of the most common verbal sources for complementizers.
In my Bachelor’s thesis, I investigated a genetically diverse sample of 10 languages that use such a complementizer for a number of variables regarding the structure of the different kinds of complements, as well as the distribution and shape of the complementizer itself.
Some of the variables pattern strongly with each other, as well as with the more general parameter of constituent order.

I discuss in this talk my variable of complement finiteness and its resulting patterns.
The variable is concerned with embedded verbs and whether they can appear in embedded sentences in finite forms, non-finite forms, or either.
Within the sample, a strong pattern arises when comparing the finiteness of verbs in SAY-complements to those in non-SAY-complements: Whether and how SAY-embedded verbs are restricted in finiteness in a language is implied by the restrictions on verbs embedded otherwise.
SAY-complements in all the languages can contain finite verbs. In some languages, they appear as an alternative to non-finites. In others, finites constitute the sole possible form. These different kinds of relations between finiteness in SAY- and non-SAY-complements allowed a basic grouping of the sample languages into types that also appeared relevant regarding the patterning of other parameters under investigation.

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Day: 2022-11-04
Start time: 09:15
Duration: 00:30
Room: Wiwi-Bunker — Room 4044
Track: Typology and Variational Linguistics
Language: en

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