Factive verbs and island effects in Romanian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0059/000532Keywords:
factive verbs, cognitive factives, emotive factives, extraction, island effectsAbstract
Factive verbs are generally said to induce weak island effects, allowing the extraction of arguments, but not that of adjuncts, from the post-verbal clause. However, a closer look at the data shows that not all factive verbs behave the same, which led some researchers to postulate at least two sub-types of factive verbs: strong/weak factives (Karttunen, 1977) or, in more recent studies, cognitive/emotive factives (Djarv, 2019). This difference can be seen in the case of Romanian factive verbs as well, with cognitive and emotive factives evincing distinct properties. The question this study raises is whether the two sub-types of factive verbs evince distinct behaviour with respect to island effects as well.
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