The syntactic structure of Persian verbal complement

Paper ID : 1034-ICIL

Authors

solmaz mahmoodi * VELENJAK

Abstract

The verbal complement clause is the main element which cannot be omitted. One major class of potential complications was raised by the structural position of clausal complements. while DP embedded CP argument is preverbally base generated. According to the case of resistance principle, the tensed (bare) clausal complements must not occupy a cased marked position at some point of derivation. So bare CP argument is in the right of the verb. And the head verb has different properties. In this article the topicalization of complement clause and the constituent from verbal (bare) complement clause, the appearance of both topic marker (ra) and case marker (ra), and two kind of pronominal enclitic one of which is base generated and the other is the copy of the moved constituent will be considered. We will show that Persian with the mix word order, head parameter, the discourse status of “ra”, “ke”, this study relies on data analysis and investigates the relation between information structure and grammatical relations in some detail and shows How topicality, focus interacts with other constraints.

Keywords

verbal complement, topicalization, extraposition, adjunction, clitic

Status: Accepted