Factivity as a trigger of agreement with complement clauses in Moksha Mordvin


2022. №6, 81-110

Natalia V. Serdobolskaya
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia; serdobolskaya@gmail.com
Anastasia D. Egorova
Independent researcher, Moscow, Russia; astya28@mail.ru

Abstract:

The paper is aimed at finding the factors determining the choice between the subject and subject-object agreement patterns of complement-taking verbs in Moksha Mordvin. We analyze the following factors: factivity, truth value of the proposition in the complement clause, given vs. new, information structure.

For citation:

Serdobolskaya N. V., Egorova A. D. Factivity as a trigger of agreement with complement clauses in Moksha Mordvin. Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2022, 6: 81–110.

Acknowledgements:

The work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant No. 20-512-14003 ANF_a and the project “Parametric description of the languages of Russian Federation” realized at The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute.