The Vp And Inflp of Albanian Language Construction under the Generative Perspective of Head Movement

Abstract

In this article, we are making commendable efforts to shed some light on some very crucial structurally sentential issues concerning the Head Movement and Split Inflection hypothesis. On the other hand, we are trying to introduce the Albanian language morpho-syntactic sentence structure to the recent and lately achievements in the generative and transformational grammar. So doing, our efforts go beyond a mere introduction aiming at their principled or parametric application in the Albanian language complex sentence structure. The Albanian language sentence complexity springs from the fact that such a language is a fully-inflected one falling under the typological classification of synthetic languages. It displays a fully elaborate system of derivational and inflectional morphemes or endings, the latter being the most productive ones. The article mostly focuses on the verbal endings or suffixes of the Albanian language and the free order the Albanian words or phrases enjoy within the sentence boundaries due to the above inherited morphological feature. The verb is treated as the nucleus of the sentence and as the most important semantic element Ɵ-marking both the subject and object DP, whereas on the other side is the InflP that governs the sentence structure and checks or license the morphological features of case marking. The article goes further deeper in the subtleties of the inflectional projection and its division into two other functional projections headed by abstract functional heads as Tense and Agreement as so marking a turning point in the generative thinking placing a great importance on the functional rather than lexical heads. This period in the linguistic generative and transformational thinking was identified as the period of functional “explosion”