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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| author | Carlos Muñoz Pérez Matías Verdecchia Fernando Carranza |
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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 certain island restrictions apply at PF. The linguistic principle accounting for the phenomenon is proposed to be a faithfulness constraint at the syntax-
prosody interface stating that an extraction domain XP cannot be mapped as a prosodic word ω at PF. An alternative syntactic account based on freezing is shown to be unable to capture the relevant contrasts.
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| spelling | doaj.art-a4ab067166064cd0b1826d5f047158ec2022-12-22T02:38:13ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIsogloss2385-41382022-10-018410.5565/rev/isogloss.170A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjectsCarlos Muñoz Pérez0Matías VerdecchiaFernando CarranzaUniversidad Austral de Chile 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 certain island restrictions apply at PF. The linguistic principle accounting for the phenomenon is proposed to be a faithfulness constraint at the syntax- prosody interface stating that an extraction domain XP cannot be mapped as a prosodic word ω at PF. An alternative syntactic account based on freezing is shown to be unable to capture the relevant contrasts. https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/170syntactic movementisland repairprosodic structureRioplatense Spanish |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Muñoz Pérez Matías Verdecchia Fernando Carranza A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects Isogloss syntactic movement island repair prosodic structure Rioplatense Spanish |
| title | A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects |
| title_full | A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects |
| title_fullStr | A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects |
| title_full_unstemmed | A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects |
| title_short | A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects |
| title_sort | prosodic constraint on wh extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects |
| topic | syntactic movement island repair prosodic structure Rioplatense Spanish |
| url | https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/170 |
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