Infinitive Wh-relatives in romance : consequences for the truncation-versus-intervention debate
Villalba, Xavier 1969- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana)

Data:	2019
Resum:	Romance clitic left dislocation is widespread across all kinds of nonroot contexts, but it is forbidden in infinitive wh-relatives. This article investigates the extent and nature of this restriction and the consequences it raises for the truncation and intervention analyses of the left periphery of embedded sentences. We will show that current proposals cannot account for the whole gamut of data. In consequence, we will propose that infinitive wh-relatives display a maximally syncretic left periphery, whereas infinitive wh-interrogatives have a full-fledged left periphery, crucially involving ForceP, because they are selected by a higher predicate. This crucial difference between infinitive relatives and interrogatives will also be shown to be consistent with the existence of specialized complementizers for the former but not the latter.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Publicat a:	Syntax, Vol. 22, núm. 2/3 (2019) , p. 303-335, ISSN 1467-9612

DOI: 10.1111/synt.12183

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