Syntax of Multiple <i>-que</i> Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery

by Villa-García, Julio

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Title Statements

Full title :Syntax of Multiple <i>-que</i> Sentences in Spanish : Along the left periphery.

Summary

Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one complementizer as a point of departure, the author delivers new insights into the syntactic positions and behavior of Spanish complementizer que along the left edge. These observations have far-reaching consequences to such fundamental linguistic concepts as the derivation of left dislocations, ellipsis, and locality of movement. Of great interest to syntax graduate students and researchers in general, this volume provides a stepping stone to cracking the code on several current syntactic questions, including the widely-contested position of preverbal subjects in null-subject languages like Spanish. In addition, it offers the linguist a bountiful toolbox for the cross-linguistic investigation of a number of left-peripheral and clausal phenomena.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015.

Notes

3. Alternative accounts of the locality effect with secondary que.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (290 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027269102, 9027269106
oclc:on1074308833
LC Classification:PC4395 ǂb .V55 2015eb
Dewey Decimal:465

Intro -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical and empirical scope of this volume -- 2. The fine structure of the left periphery -- 3. Major claims of this volume -- 3.1 Against a processing account of double-complementizer sentences in Spanish -- 3.2 A note on terminology -- 4. Organization of the book -- Toward a syntactic analysis of Spanish recomplementation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The phenomenon of recomplementation -- 2.1 Other types of non-high que -- 3. Properties of recomplementation configurations -- 3.1 The constituents sandwiched between ques are left-dislocated -- 3.2 Distributional properties of recomplementation que -- 3.2.1 Multiple instances of sandwiched left-dislocation -- 3.2.2 On the iterative nature of recomplementation que -- 3.2.3 Non-dislocated left-peripheral XPs cannot appear to the left of recomplementation que -- 3.3 Selection and recomplementation que -- 3.4 Recomplementation que blocks movement across it -- 3.5 On the relationship between the sandwiched dislocated phrase and recomplementation que -- 3.5.1 *Que que sequences? -- 3.5.2 The sandwiched XP and r…