Completive verbali, nominali e aggettivali: le possibili strutture della lingua albanese

This paper explores the structure of Albanian complement clauses selected by verbs, nominals and adjectives. Taking as a starting point the syntactic distinction between factive and non-factive predicates and the dual complementizer system of Albanian, I show the relation between the selecting verb and the embedded clause and I present the different types of complement clauses, namely the se/që-indicative complements, the që-subjunctive complements and the infinitive complements. Then, I analyze the phenomenon of the nominalization, i.e. the formation of nominals from verbs, both eventive and pure propositional and I show that some derived nominals have the same structure of their correspondent verbs, whereas other seem to be somehow different in comparison to their verbal counterparts. Albanian nominalizations do not form a homogenous class. The same picture we find with adjectives projecting complement clauses. Some of their complements are in free distribution, others are in complementary distribution showing that it is impossible to unify the various instances of these structures.