{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.029649595687331536, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 5.243697478991597, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
The emergence of the Romanian subjunctive

Abstract This paper argues that să-subjunctives arise and spread in Early Modern Romanian (EMR) because of two properties: (i) să values the complementizer head (C) as unambiguously irrealis; and (ii) the subjunctive clause is systematically phasal. The emergence of să is kept distinct from the emergence of the subjunctive in the Balkan Sprachbund, and is situated, instead, in the context of a more generalized shift in the list of EMR complementizers. The investigation resorts to cartography and addresses the issue of cross-linguistic variation in the mapping of modality at the left periphery of subjunctive clauses, which is finer-grained in EMR compared to other Romance (Balkan) languages.