THE COMPLEMENTARY DISTRIBUTION OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE AND THE INFINITIVE IN COMPLEMENT CLAUSES

The purpose of this study is to give a global explanation of the complementary distribution of complement clauses in subjunctive md iinfinitive form. The analysis that I propose for these facts not only involves the infiectional constituents of the matrix clause and its subordinate clause, but crucially, the position C (=Camp). Furthemore, close examination of complement clauses which contain a verb in the subjunctive mood demonstrates that an identical verbal morphology conceals, in fact, two different syntactic manifestations. The origin of this phenomenon is at D-structure, where the sernantic information that determines whether or not a particular verb can subcategorize for a clause with a verb in the subjunctive is provided to the lexical entries of verbs. I wili consider Catalan as representative of a language which allows subcategorization for both subjunctive and infinitival clauses, and modem Greek as representative of a language which allows subcategorization of a subjunctive clause but lacks the possibility for subcategorization of an infinitival clause