Localizing conditional clauses in the left periphery
Evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in romance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20438564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola Munaro (0000-0002-8121-6676, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 211-224 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3922 • E-ISSN: 2350-420X |
| Publisher | University of Ljubljana (PUBLISHER • SI) |
| DOI | 10.4312/linguistica.56.1.211-224 |
| OpenAlex | W2562252832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of embedded clauses, a possibility that has been lost with time in Italo-Romance but is still attested in modern Ibero-Romance. It is further argued that in multiple complementizer structures the highest complementizer invariably lexicalizes the head Force°, while the other occurrences of the complementizer mark the lower boundary of the main two Topic subfields
Adverbial · Art · Complementizer · Linguistics · Literature · Romance · Syntax · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |