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- Title
LOCALIZING CONDITIONAL CLAUSES IN THE LEFT PERIPHERY: EVIDENCE FROM MULTIPLE COMPLEMENTIZER CONSTRUCTIONS IN ROMANCE.
- Authors
Munaro, Nicola
- Abstract
This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of embedded clauses, a possibility that has been lost with time in Italo-Romance but is still attested in modern Ibero-Romance. It is further argued that in multiple complementizer structures the highest complementizer invariably lexicalizes the head Force°, while the other occurrences of the complementizer mark the lower boundary of the main two Topic subfields.
- Subjects
CLAUSES (Grammar); ADVERBS (Grammar); SENTENCES (Grammar); CONNECTIVES (Linguistics); COMPLEMENTIZERS (Grammar)
- Publication
Linguistica, 2016, Vol 56, p211
- ISSN
0024-3922
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4312/linguistica.56.1.211-224