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On Insituness and (very) low Wh-Positions: The Case of Trevigiano

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to show that in Trevigiano, a Romance dialect of the Venetan area, ‘insituness' is actually an instance of wh-movement targeting a TP-internal focal position, whP (‘little whP'). This is true not only in matrix but also in embedded question, where wh-phrases are licensed under two specialized embedding COMPs, ‘che' and ‘se'. These properties make ‘insituness' in Trevigiano incompatible with remnant-IP movement à la Poletto and Pollock (2015, and previous related works) and call for a different analysis, thus raising a number of questions on the intrinsic nature of ‘optional insituness' in Romance.

Source: Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva)

DOI: 10.13097/unige:120457

Author: Bonan, Caterina

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2962102247

FWCI: 26.72

Cites: 5

Cited by: 19

Related to: 10