A01=Francisco Ordonez
Argumental Pro
Author_Francisco Ordonez
Category=CFK
Clitic Agreement
Clitic Doubling
CP Recursion
DP Subject
El Llibre
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Francisco Ord?Ez
Heavy Np Shift
Inflectional Projection
La Carta
leftward movement analysis
Lexical DP
Lexical Subjects
Maximal Projection
Negative Quantifier
Object Clitic
person agreement morphology
Post-verbal Subject
Postverbal Subjects
Preverbal Arguments
Preverbal Subjects
romance clausal structure
Romance linguistics
Se Lo
Small Clause
Spanish clause structure analysis
Spanish intuitions
Spanish language
Spec Head Configuration
Spec Head Relation
Spec IP
syntactic theory
Theta Role Assignment
wh-movement phenomena
word order variation
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815337881
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This work studies various aspects of word order and clause structure in Spanish that have proved problematic for syntactic theory. These aspects are explored theoretically in light of the antisymmetry approach of Kayne (1994) and empirically by examining parallel structures in related languages. For example, the author uses antisymmetry to critique the traditional understanding of post-verbal subjects, which have assumed a right-adjunction approach. However, he provides empirical as well as theoretical reasons to believe that a combination of leftward movements constitutes a better alternative. Likewise, the study uses a number of combined theoretical and empirical arguments to provide new and more constrained analyses of overt wh -movement and pre-verbal subjects. It shows that the obligatory post-verbal positioning of overt subjects cannot be explained by recourse to a required overt head movement of the verb. Instead, the author explains this restriction by proposing that overt subjects, which are always topicalized in Spanish, conflict with the feature specifications of wh -complementizers. Finally, the author relates the obligatory topicalized nature of pre-verbal subjects in Spanish to a proposal that person agreement morphemes on the verb should be considered arguments that receive the subject theta-role. This book will be of interest to syntacticians and comparitivists, as well as scholars of Romance languages.
