LONG HEAD MOVEMENT AND NEGATION: SERBO-CROATIAN VS. SLOVAK AND CZECH

Abstract

By contrast, in the less known syntactic type topic of this paper, or the Long Head Movement (= LHM) class of Southern and Western Slavic, the Balkans, and Old Romance, non-finite Verbs (or Aux too, as seen later) may have different distributions in main and subordinate clauses, as in (2) with the matrix V spytal 'asked' preceding the finite Aux som '(I) have', and the opposite order in the complement clause: si napisal '(you) have written'.