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SUBJUNCTIVES IN BULGARIAN AND MODERN GREEK 109the biblical texts (ninth and tenth centuries). Interestingly, the da +V complex,which came to replace the Old Blg infinitive, was originally introduced inclauses that required distinct subjects (6a) or in ECM clauses (6b). Typically,these cases would correspond to an accusativus cum infinitivo construction inthe Greek text, as shown under the respective glosses:(6) a. aste xoston da tu prebondetuif want-1SG da he survive-3SG(Cod. Zogr., Io. 21.22)eav auTov 6£\u p.eveivb. ne xostemu seinu da crsuetu nadu naininot want-1 PL him da rule-3SG above us(Cod. Zogr., Lk. 19.14)oil 8€\on£v TOUTOV |3aot\€uoai ecb' ffna(It is important to note that even alter t/a-clauses have gained a much widerdistribution and entirely replaced the infinitive in all other contexts, verbstypically expressing deontic modality or some sort of an aspectual meaningcontinued to function as the only predicate type still compatible with an infinitive(cf. (7)):(7) Ne mozesi bo tuj sutrupjati skrbii pitstinskixu.not can-2SG moreover you-NOM endure-INF sorrows of-a-hermit(Cod. Supr., 169.27-28)With respect to subject reference, the contrast between (6a) and (7) is reminiscentof the rivalry between the subjunctive and the infinitive in Romance (cf.(8a) and (8b) from Spanish). Thus, (6a) seems to instantiate the wellknown obviationeffect typical for Romance subjunctives but generally lacking in theBalkan languages: "(8) a. Juani desea ( que pro. /Maria vaya con el.\John wish-3SG that pro/Maria go-3SG.SUBJ with him'John wants Mary to go with him.'b. Juan desea [PRO //• a la playa.\John wish-3SG [PRO go-INF to the beach.'John wants to go to the beach.'I will not be concerned with the lack of obviation in Modern Blg; I willsimply note that the distinction between Type I and Type II Ss achieves aconcrete result in this direction. Farkas (1992b) argues that in Romance andother languages, obviative complements are a subset of the subjunctivecomplements and appear precisely in those contexts where the infinitive may alternatewith the subjunctive. Thus, the obviation effect is closely related to therole played by the infinitive. With the elimination of the Old Blg infinitive, thedomain of control in da-complements corresponding to Type II Ss became