Inverted conjugations and V-second effects in Romance

Clitics, subjects and tense in European Portuguese

“…Lema and Rivero (1989) and Rivero (1994) propose to analyze mesoclisis configurations in Old Portuguese and in Old Spanish as instances of a long head movement to C of a verbal stem over an inflected weak auxiliary. Lema and Rivero (1989) and Rivero (1994) propose to analyze mesoclisis configurations in Old Portuguese and in Old Spanish as instances of a long head movement to C of a verbal stem over an inflected weak auxiliary.…”

Types of Verbal Movement in Old Spanish: Modals, Futures, and Perfects

“…In all other cases V incorporates to T=AUX. If this proposal is correct, Agreement has no independent effect on V-movement, irrespective of its relative position in relation to TP, so it is not represented in (55) (and see latridou 1989 for a criticism of the role of AGRP in Pollock's proposal, and Travis (1984) and adopted by Baker (1985,1988) and Chomsky (1986), which must be abandoned in favor of the ECP exclusively (Chomsky 1988, Ouhalla 1988, Lema and Rivero 1989a. This Situation raises two related issues requiring future research into the cross-linguistic properties of LHM: (a) how LHM constructions satisfy the ECP, and (b) the role of Relativized Minimality in Head Movement, an area where Rizzi thought (1989) the HMC was sufficient.…”

Syntactic approaches to cliticization

“…Similarly, mesoclisis as in (18b) can be accounted for as enclisis, i.e. as resulting from the movement of the verb to the left of the clitic, provided this movement can cross and hence leave to the right inflectional material as well, an account first suggested in a different empirical context by Lema and Rivero (1991).…”