Lessons from overtly-headed exclamatives in Spanish varieties

Lessons from overtly-headed exclamatives in Spanish varieties

Inverting wh-exclamative sentences with an overt complementizer in languages like Spanish pose a serious challenge to traditional accounts of obligatory subject-verb inversion. Such analyses assume either T-to-C movement or Spec,TP as an A-bar position capable of hosting wh-phrases and subjects ali...

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Main Author: Julio Villa-García
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2024-06-01
Series:Isogloss
Subjects:
exclamative sentences
complementizers
interrogatives
obligatory S-V inversion
Spanish
Romance
Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/380

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