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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

Gupton, Timothy

Hardcover

Series: Interface Explorations [Ie], Book 29

PortugueseSpanishLinguistics

ISBN10: 161451271X
ISBN13: 9781614512714
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Oct 13 2014
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of generative grammar, there is still uncertainty with respect to the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of languages. According to canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are arguments (A-elements). However, following non-canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are not arguments, but rather A'-elements that behave like topical preverbal direct and indirect objects, which have received a CLLD analysis in the literature (e.g. Cinque 1990). The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverbal subjects are non-arguments, one must question the universality of the EPP (as in e.g. Alexiadou & Agnostopoulou 1998), as well as its associated features and feature-strengths.

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