A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects
Muñoz Pérez, Carlos (Universidad Austral de Chile)
Verdecchia, Matías (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Carranza, Fernando (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Data:	2022
Resum:	This paper introduces a series of mitigating circumstances improving the acceptability of wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects in Rioplatense Spanish. It is argued that the factor behind these amelioration effects is encoded in prosodic structure, much in line with the hypothesis that certain island restrictions apply at PF. The linguistic principle accounting for the phenomenon is proposed to be a faithfulness constraint at the syntax- prosody interface stating that an extraction domain XP cannot be mapped as a prosodic word ω at PF. An alternative syntactic account based on freezing is shown to be unable to capture the relevant contrasts.
Resum:	This paper introduces a series of mitigating circumstances improving the acceptability of wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects in Rioplatense Spanish. It is argued that the factor behind these amelioration effects is encoded in prosodic structure, much in line with the hypothesis that certain island restrictions apply at PF. The linguistic principle accounting for the phenomenon is proposed to be a faithfulness constraint at the syntax-prosody interface stating that an extraction domain XP cannot be mapped as a prosodic word ω at PF. An alternative syntactic account based on freezing is shown to be unable to capture the relevant contrasts.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Syntactic movement ; Island repair ; Prosodic structure ; Rioplatense spanish
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 4 (2022) , p. 1-19 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-munozperez-verdecchia-carranza
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-munozperez-verdecchia-carranza
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.170

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