Two clauses in a single word: Preliminary typology of morphologically bound complemenation

Anastasia Panova
National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract. Morphologically bound complementation is a construction where a matrix predicate and the head of its sentential complement constitute a single verb morphologically but retain their syntactic and semantic independence. In this article I consider the main features of this type of subordination in different languages and then discuss where such morphologically and syntactically peculiar constructions can be expected, and which properties of linguistic systems facilitate it.

Keywords: morphologically bound complementation, morphologization, clause fusion, grammaticalization, linguistic typology​​​​​​

For citation: Panova A. Two clauses in a single word: Preliminary typology of morphologically bound complemenation. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2018. Vol. 1, iss. 2. Pp. 84–99. (In Rus.)