| Date: |
2024 |
| Abstract: |
This paper explores the correlation between clitic climbing and restructuring. In particular, it offers evidence from Catalan and cross-linguistic data to demonstrate that restructuring is universal and that clitic climbing is a facultative epiphenomenon of restructuring. In this sense, the proposal presented here claims that restructuring verbs select an embedded clause headed by a Cdef/Tdef. It also shows that languages triggering clitic climbing display a higher degree of transparency and that the (un)availability of clitic climbing in a particular language is derived by the nature of the embedded v. |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
Clitic climbing ;
Restructuring ;
Infinitives ;
Long-distance dependencies |
| Published in: |
Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 4 (2024) , p. 1-21 (Part 2. Restructuring Verbs) , ISSN 2385-4138 |
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