Caroline Pajancic

University of Vienna | UniWien · Institut für Sprachwissenschaft

This paper shows that the distribution of (non‑)finiteness in the South Slavic languages reflects an implicational scale along an independently attested semantic complementation hierarchy (e.g., Givón 1980). We suggest that in the South Slavic languages, finiteness is triggered by clausal agreement features associated with different syntactic heads...

This paper explores distribution of finiteness in clausal complements in South Slavic languages. We argue that the distribution is systematic and can be derived from: a) agreement projections/features being inserted in different clausal domains and b) containment relations of clausal domains - whenever the finiteness agreement head is part of the l...

Serial verb constructions (SVCs) have attracted the interest of linguists for decades; they are a frequent phenomenon in Mabia (Gur) languages but have been the topic of debate in the Mabia language Mooré, since its multi-verb constructions show a linking element which most common definitions of SVCs do not allow. This thesis discusses multiple def...

In the last 10 years, much research has gone into finding answers to key questions about the African presence in Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). We now have fairly good answers to questions like why Africans go to China, the major cities Africans live in and visit, what they do there, and how they are received by the Ch...