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The Layered Syntactic Structure of the Complementizer System: Functional Heads and Multiple Movements in the Early Left-Periphery. A Corpus Study on Italian [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
In this paper we document the developmental trajectory of the complementizer system (CP-system) in Italian by looking at the earliest spontaneous production of eleven young children, whose transcriptions are available on CHILDES.
Vincenzo Moscati, Luigi Rizzi, Luigi Rizzi   +2 more
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Subject Gaps Revisited: Complement Clauses and Complementizer-Trace Effects [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study investigates how filler-gap dependencies associated with subject position are formed in online sentence comprehension. Since Crain and Fodor (1985), “filled-gap” studies have provided evidence that the parser actively seeks to associate a wh ...
Rebecca Tollan, Bilge Palaz
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Embedded Stripping in Italian and Complementizer Deletion

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
In this work I propose an experimental analysis of the role of Complementizer Deletion (CD) in embedded stripping in Italian. I follow Wurmbrand (2017), who proposes the existence of a typological bipartition of languages, namely those which only allow ...
Francesca Dal Santo
exaly   +3 more sources

Complementizer Agreement and the Licensing of DPs: An Account in Terms of Referential Anchoring

Languages
In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of complementizer agreement in West Germanic and the distribution of DPs in German can be given a common explanation in terms of an approach in which context values are not freely assigned via an interpretive ...
Roland Hinterhölzl
exaly   +3 more sources

Complementizer agreement is not allomorphy: A reply to Weisser (2019)

Glossa, 2020
Weisser (2019) reanalyzes the Breton rannig, Busan Korean interrogative complementizer alternations, and West-Germanic complementizer agreement as allomorphy instead of agreement, and proposes a set of diagnostics to distinguish allomorphy from agreement.
Astrid van Alem
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On the position of ECM subjects : a case study from Japanese

Linguistica Brunensia, 2021
On the basis of new empirical data from Japanese, this paper argues that in the ECM construction where CP is projected in the embedded clause, the embedded subject undergoes A-movement to Spec of embedded CP, but not to the matrix object position.
Hideki Kishimoto
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Micro-Contact in Southern Italy: Language Change in Southern Lazio under Pressure from Italian

Languages, 2022
This paper explores a novel case of contact-induced change due to micro-contact within Italy, where various Italo-Romance languages coexist (Standard Italian, Italiano Regionale ‘regional Italian’, and numerous local languages).
Valentina Colasanti
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Localizing conditional clauses in the left periphery: evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in romance

Linguistica, 2016
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 ...
Nicola Munaro
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Complementizer agreement with coordinated subjects in Polish

Glossa, 2018
This paper examines complementizer and verbal agreement with coordinate subjects in Polish. It shows that while certain patterns are possible, others (logically equally plausible ones) are not.
Barbara Citko
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Complementizer Drop And IP Complementation in Japanese

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000
The main purpose of the present paper is to provide a principled account for a phenomenon called "Complementizer Drop" in the dialects of Japanese and its related phenomena in teens of the head-raising approach without recourse to the ECP or GB-type ...
Fukuda, Minoru
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