Deriving Rationale Clauses: Infinitives and Imperatives

Burukina, Irina (2024) Deriving Rationale Clauses: Infinitives and Imperatives. In: Language use and linguistic structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2023. Olomouc Modern Language Series (10). Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, pp. 12-23. ISBN 9788024465081

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Abstract

The paper examines rationale clauses in Mari (Uralic; head-final), which come in two types: infinitival clauses and imperatives. It develops a uniform semantico-syntactic analysis for both constructions based on the idea that rationale clauses contain a MoodP with a teleological modal as its head: in infinitival rationale clauses the MoodP is built on top of the non-finite TP/FinP, and in imperative rationale clauses the usual imperative modal is utilized with a shifted flavor. The research fills in a gap in the description of Uralic and contributes to the discussion of the split CP and modality in adjunct clauses by demonstrating how embedded non-finite and finite CPs can be predicated directly of the main clause.

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