The internal syntax of adverbial clauses

Haegeman, Liliane

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.07.007

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“…(29 Haegeman (2007Haegeman ( , 2010a have argued that temporal adverbial clauses also involve operator movement to [Spec, CP] in the embedded clause. According to Haegeman (2010a), this accounts for the inability of other constituents, like topics, to undergo fronting in this type of embedded clause, because the landing site is occupied by the operator. So it is not surprising that temporal adverbial clauses have genitive subjects in LAC.…”

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Inherent case in Archaic Chinese

Aldridge

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Abstract. This paper proposes an analysis of subject case in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). By examining the distribution of first person pronominal subjects, I conclude that there were two distinct morphological cases for subjects in LAC. One of these pronouns, 我 wǒ, valued structural nominative case, while the other one, 吾 wú, was marked with a different case. The occurrence of 吾 wú as the external argument of experiencer and modal predicates clearly suggests that this case was at least sometimes inherent case assigned to the external argument in [Spec, vP]. 吾 wú also functioned as the subject of relative clauses, embedded subjunctive clauses, and irrealis matrix clauses. Since the case valued in these clause types was not sensitive to predicate types, I propose that the source of the case valued by the subject in these environments was T. Working within Chomsky's (2008) C-T Inheritance framework, I propose that Inheritance did not take place in indicative clauses, so the subject moved to [Spec, CP] to value nominative case. A first person pronoun with nominative case was spelled out as 我 wǒ. But Inheritance was forced if another constituent needed to occupy [Spec, CP]. I propose that relative clauses and irrealis/subjunctive clauses are all derived through operator movement. Because the operator must occupy [Spec, CP], C-T Inheritance must also take place, forcing the subject to move to [Spec, TP] to value its case. The case valued in this position was also the non-nominative form exemplified by the first person pronoun 吾 wú.

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Inherent case in Archaic Chinese

Aldridge

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…The distinction of types is realised by different combinations of features (a general line pursued by Haegeman, 2010Haegeman, , 2012Starke, 2001;Frascarelli and Ramaglia, 2013;among others). Table 1 outlines the feature composition of the types of foci that may be identified in Spanish, based on their interpretive properties I have discussed earlier:…”

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Towards a typology of focus: Subject position and microvariation at the discourse–syntax interface

Jiménez-Fernández

2015

Ampersand

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“…11 Haegeman (2004) extended Hooper & Thompson's insight to analyse 'peripheral' adverbial clauses, which also allow for root transformations. In later work, she abandoned this approach in favour of an analysis based on intervention effects (see Haegeman 2010). Miyagawa (2012) proposes a mixed approach, in which some root transformations require the presence of a 'speech act layer' in the left periphery.…”

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Focus Fronting and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Bianchi¹

2015

Beyond Functional Sequence

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The internal syntax of adverbial clauses

Cited by 120 publications

References 32 publications

Inherent case in Archaic Chinese

Inherent case in Archaic Chinese

Towards a typology of focus: Subject position and microvariation at the discourse–syntax interface

Focus Fronting and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

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