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A property of the Greek (Gr) complementation system, shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Balkan languages, is the lack of infmitives and the use of the subjunctive in the corresponding infmitival Romance (and English) constructions.
I would like to thank Rita Manzini, Ian Roberts, and the anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions, as well as the audiences at the LAGB Autumn meeting in Middlessex, the Berlin workshop on Modern Greek Syntax and the Bangor Research Seminar.
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Roussou, A. (1999). Modals and the Subjunctive. In: Alexiadou, A., Horrocks, G., Stavrou, M. (eds) Studies in Greek Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9177-5_9
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