InfinitiveWh-Relatives in Romance
Consequences for the Truncation-versus-Intervention Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5110039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xavier Villalba (0000-0001-6993-976X, Departament de Filologia Catalana Centre de Lingüística Teòrica Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Edifici B 08193 Bellaterra Spain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 303-335 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Syntax (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/synt.12183 |
| OpenAlex | W2967788893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 55 |
Romance clitic left dislocation is widespread across all kinds of nonroot contexts, but it is forbidden in infinitivewh-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 infinitivewh-relatives display a maximally syncretic left periphery, whereas infinitivewh-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
Clitic · Infinitive · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Romance languages · Statistics · Truncation (statistics · Verb · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |