Clitic Climbing, Finiteness and the Raising-Control Distinction. A Corpus–based study

In the paper, we discuss the phenomenon of clitic climbing out of finite da₂-complements in contemporary Serbian. Scholars’ opinions on the acceptability and occurrence of this construction, based on a handful of self-made examples, vary considerably. Expanding on the assumption that the correctness of the phenomenon has often been denied due to its rareness we employ large corpora to examine the problem. We focus on possible constraints arising from the syntactic properties of clause-embedding predicates.