Romanian verbs and clause-typers

Romanian marks the mood of a finite complement both on the verb and on the particle that introduces the clause, să with the subjunctive and că with the indicative. The attitude and causative verbs here record the mood each selects in an affirmative declarative clause, the Romanian data of [Gra24]'s survey of mood choice: a vrea 'want', a intenționa 'intend' and the causative a face take să and reject că, and a spera 'hope' takes either.

Implementation notes

Whether să heads C or a mood projection below it is left open, as for Greek na; the entry records only the coding of the clause it introduces.

References

• [Gra24]

Clause-typers

def Romanian.Verbs.sa : Complementizer

să introduces a subjunctive clause.

Equations

• Romanian.Verbs.sa = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.free "să"], coding := some Complement.Coding.subjunctive }

def Romanian.Verbs.ca : Complementizer

că introduces an indicative declarative clause.

Equations

• Romanian.Verbs.ca = { morphs := [Morphology.Morph.free "că"], coding := some Complement.Coding.indicative, types := Clause.Selection.only Clause.SentenceType.declarative }

def Romanian.Verbs.complementizers : List Complementizer

The clause-typers of finite complements.

Equations

• Romanian.Verbs.complementizers = [Romanian.Verbs.sa, Romanian.Verbs.ca]

Attitude and causative verbs

def Romanian.Verbs.saClause : ArgumentFrame

A finite subjunctive complement, the clause să introduces.

Equations

• Romanian.Verbs.saClause = { complements := [ArgumentFrame.Position.clausal (some Complement.Coding.subjunctive)] }

def Romanian.Verbs.a_vrea : Verb

a vrea 'want' takes a să clause.

Equations

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def Romanian.Verbs.a_spera : Verb

a spera 'hope' takes a să clause or a că clause.

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def Romanian.Verbs.a_intentiona : Verb

a intenționa 'intend' takes a să clause.

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def Romanian.Verbs.a_face : Verb

The causative a face 'make' takes an object and a să clause.

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theorem Romanian.Verbs.a_spera_takes_both : a_spera.Takes sa ∧ a_spera.Takes ca ∧ a_vrea.Takes sa ∧ ¬a_vrea.Takes ca

a spera takes both particles and a vrea only să.