On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects
In this paper I argue that the position and realization of subjects in adverbial non-finite clauses in Italian, Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese can provide valuable insight into the licensing conditions for pro and postverbal subjects in finite clauses in these pro-drop languages. I first...
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| Publication date: | 2024 |
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| Keyword: | Null subjects Pro-drop Infinitives Agreement Romance languages |
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| author | Fernández-Salgueiro, Gerardo|||0009-0002-7393-8334 |
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| description | In this paper I argue that the position and realization of subjects in adverbial non-finite clauses in Italian, Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese can provide valuable insight into the licensing conditions for pro and postverbal subjects in finite clauses in these pro-drop languages. I first provide evidence that Tense and Agreement constitute separate syntactic heads in these languages, as argued by Belletti (1990) among others, and also apply this analysis to non-finite clauses in Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese. I will also argue, after analyzing the syntactic variation exhibited by subjects in non-finite clauses (containing regular and inflected infinitives) in Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese, that (i) postverbal overt subject DPs are licensed by a full set of φ-features in Agr (overt or covert), (ii) pro is licensed by an Agr head that is overtly realized by either overt φ-features or verb movement, and (iii) preverbal overt subject DPs are licensed by verb movement to Agr. |
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| spelling | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects evidence from Romance infinitives Fernández-Salgueiro, Gerardo|||0009-0002-7393-8334 Null subjects Pro-drop Infinitives Agreement Romance languages In this paper I argue that the position and realization of subjects in adverbial non-finite clauses in Italian, Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese can provide valuable insight into the licensing conditions for pro and postverbal subjects in finite clauses in these pro-drop languages. I first provide evidence that Tense and Agreement constitute separate syntactic heads in these languages, as argued by Belletti (1990) among others, and also apply this analysis to non-finite clauses in Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese. I will also argue, after analyzing the syntactic variation exhibited by subjects in non-finite clauses (containing regular and inflected infinitives) in Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese, that (i) postverbal overt subject DPs are licensed by a full set of φ-features in Agr (overt or covert), (ii) pro is licensed by an Agr head that is overtly realized by either overt φ-features or verb movement, and (iii) preverbal overt subject DPs are licensed by verb movement to Agr. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/304768 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.416 |
| spellingShingle | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects Fernández-Salgueiro, Gerardo|||0009-0002-7393-8334 Null subjects Pro-drop Infinitives Agreement Romance languages |
| title | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects |
| title_full | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects |
| title_fullStr | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects |
| title_short | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects |
| title_sort | On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects |
| topic | Null subjects Pro-drop Infinitives Agreement Romance languages |
| topic_facet | Null subjects Pro-drop Infinitives Agreement Romance languages |
| url | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/304768 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.416 |