The syntax of multiple -que sentences in Spanish along the left periphery

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 compl...

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Autor principal: Villa-García, Julio (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2015]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39256091*spi
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  • 3.1 The constituents sandwiched between ques are left-dislocated3.2 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 recomplementation que stand in a Spec-Head relationship3.5.2.1 Polarity and recomplementation. In recent work, Garrett (2013) provides empirical support for the claim put forth here that both the sandwiched XP and recomplementation que are topic-related entities. The author applies a test for topichood devise; 3.5.2.2 Ellipsis and recomplementation. As noted above, Paoli (2006) claims that the second que in Romance recomplementation agrees with an element in its specifier, an intuition already expressed in Uriagereka (1995a). I have also shown that Saramaccan a.
  • 4. Evaluating the existing accounts of recomplementation4.1 Existing proposals; 4.1.1 CP recursion; 4.1.2 Recomplementation que in FP; 4.1.3 Proposals within Rizzi's split-CP system; 4.1.3.1 Recomplementation que in FinitenessP. A number of proposals assume that optional secondary que heads FinitenessP, while the high, obligatory que characteristic of embedded declarative clauses heads ForceP, the two complementizers serving to delimi.