Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery

Haegeman, Liliane

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“…The generalization that emerges is that movement of a category which is featurally more complex is not blocked by the intervention of a featurally simpler category (Starke 2001, Rizzi 2004). In the same spirit, Abels 2012 observes that rc-dependencies appear to be less constrained than wh-dependencies also in other configurations involving locality restrictions and proposes to trace this difference back to the richer featural composition of relative pronouns compared to wh-elements (see also Haegeman 2012, Heageman and Ürögdi 2010a, 2010b. This logic might apply also to the asymmetry between rc and wh-dependencies that we observed in English adjunct islands.…”

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Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian

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Caponigro²,

Greco³

et al. 2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grants BCS-0843896 and BSC-1347115 to JS. We would like to thank Michela Marchesi for assistance collecting data for the Italian WH-dependencies experiment. We would like to thank Jeremy Hartman, Norbert Hornstein, Luigi Rizzi, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this article. We would also like to thank audiences at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Illinois Chicago for helpful comments at various stages of the development of this study. All errors remain our own.1 Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian AbstractThe goal of this article is to explore the utility of experimental syntax techniques in the investigation of syntactic variation. To that end, we applied the factorial definition of island effects made available by experimental syntax (e.g., ) to four island types (wh/whether, complex NP, subject, and adjunct), two dependency types (wh-interrogative clause dependencies and relative clause dependencies) and two languages (English and Italian). The results of 8 primary experiments suggest that there is indeed variation across dependency types, suggesting that wh-interrogative clause dependencies and relative clause dependencies cannot be identical at every level of analysis; however, the pattern of variation observed in these experiments is not exactly the pattern of variation previously reported in the literature (e.g., Rizzi 1982). We review six major syntactic approaches to the analysis island effects (Subjacency, CED, Barriers, Relativized Minimality, Structure-building, and Phases) and discuss the implications of these results for these analyses. We also present 4 supplemental experiments testing complex wh-phrases (also called D-linked or lexically restricted wh-phrases) for all four island types using the factorial design in order to tease apart the contribution of dependency type from featural specification. The results of the supplemental experiments confirm that dependency type is the major source of variation, not featural specification, while providing a concrete quantification of what exactly the effect of complex wh-phrases on island effects is.

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Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian

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Caponigro²,

Greco³

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“…The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 briefly summarizes the NCC as RC proposals in Arsenijević (2009), Kayne (2008; and Haegeman (2012). Section 3 first presents the main empirical evidence put forward in the literature in favor of the relative clause analysis and then presents a number of cross-linguistic counterexamples involving morphological markers of relativization appearing in RCs but different morphological markers appearing in NCCs and verb complement clauses (VCCs).…”

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“…A number of authors have recently advanced the claim that so-called Noun Complement Clauses (NCCs) are actually Relative Clauses (RCs) in disguise (Kayne 2008;Arsenijević 2009;Haegeman 2012;among others). While each of these authors implements their proposals differently, they all share the general claim that NCCs like (1) should be analyzed as a type of RC construction as in (2).…”

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Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers

Cuba

2017

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A number of recent analyses propose that so-called noun complement clauses should be analyzed as a type of relative clause. In this paper, I present a number of complications for any analysis that equates noun complement clauses to relative clauses, and conclude that this type of analysis is on the wrong track. I present cross-linguistic evidence showing that the syntactic behavior of noun complement clauses does not pattern with relative clauses. Patterns of complementizer choice and complementizer drop as well as patterns involving main clause phenomena and extraction differ in the two constructions, which I argue is unexpected under a relative clause analysis that involves operator movement. Instead I present an alternative analysis in which I propose that the referentiality of a noun complement clause is linked to its syntactic behavior. Following recent work, I claim that referential clauses have a syntactically truncated left-periphery, and this truncation can account for the lack of main clause phenomena in noun complement clauses. I argue that the truncation analysis is also able to accommodate complementizer data patterns more easily than relative clause analyses that appeal to operator movement.

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“…?Como las manzanas, las trajo María, empezamos la tarta entonces. as the apples them brought María, started.1pl the cake then However, Haegeman (2011) has argued that again the distinction is syntactic and not pragmatic: what happens with the 'presuppositional' cases is that they involve movement of an operator, because they share properties with relative clauses, and that is what makes topic or focus movement marked, in contrast with the because-clause, that is not a relative.…”

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“…while that the birthday, his father it celebrated, Juan SE stayed at home (414 Haegeman (2011), who advocates for a cartographic approach, proposes that peripheral subordinate clauses project a full CP area, where all positions that are needed for information structure are available. Peripheral clauses can have their own illocutionary force, while central clauses display an impoverished CP area.…”

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Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

Fábregas

2016

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. This article presents the main facts about how information structure is syntactically codified in Spanish, with particular attention to the syntax of topics and foci. These facts will be used to assess whether cartographic and minimalist approaches can, in their pure version, account precisely for this set of facts in a predictive way. We discuss the taxonomy of topics and foci, the evidence for their syntactic position, their A'-movement properties, the asymmetries between left-and right-dislocated elements, and the availability of information structure inside subordinate clauses.Keywords. topic; focus; information structure; embedded contexts; dislocation; root clause RESUMEN. Este artículo presenta los principales datos acerca de la codificación sintáctica de la estructura informativa en español, con especial atención a la sintaxis de tópicos y focos. Estos hechos serán utilizados para evaluar si, en su forma más pura, las teorías cartográficas o minimistas pueden explicar estos hechos de una forma predictiva. El trabajo discute la taxonomía de tópicos y focos, qué datos hay para identificar su posición sintáctica, sus propiedades de movimiento A', las asimetrías entre elementos dislocados a izquierda y derecha, y la posibilidad de introducir estructura informativa marcada en el interior de las oraciones subordinadas.

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Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery

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Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian

Experimental syntax and the variation of island effects in English and Italian

Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers

Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

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