A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects

A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects

This paper introduces a series of mitigating circumstances improving the acceptability of wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects in Rioplatense Spanish. It is argued that the factor behind these amelioration effects is encoded in prosodic structure, much in line with the hypothesis that...

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Main Authors: Carlos Muñoz Pérez, Matías Verdecchia, Fernando Carranza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2022-10-01
Series:Isogloss
Subjects:
syntactic movement
island repair
prosodic structure
Rioplatense Spanish
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/170

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