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The aim of this concluding chapter is to present a summary of this work, to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of my proposal, and to highlight those aspects of my investigation that deserve further research both at the empirical and theoretical level.
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Pseudo-relatives are anything but straightforward if one attempts to position them along Vincent’s scale. In fact, on the basis of their morphology specification they occupy the indicative position at the top of Vincent’s scale. However, if the mood scale corresponds to different degrees of Finiteness and if Barron is correct is regarding pseudo-relatives as non-finite, the position of these forms at the top of the scale becomes problematic.
An anonimous reviewer has pointed out that in Romance, imperatives are not used only to convey commands. While this weakens the one-to-one relation proposed by Fava (1993) between the unique morphology of imperatives and the act of command, it does not affect the overall argument presented here. More precisely, the observation that it seems natural to consider imperatives as carrying a morphological specification for mood, contra Zanuttini’s claim, is still valid. 3 I thank an anonymous reviewers for pointing out to me this property of non-finites.
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Goria, C. (2004). Concluding Remarks. In: Subject Clitics in the Northern Italian Dialects. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2738-3_7
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