Microvariation in Catalan and Occitan complementizers

The present paper offers further independent evidence for the functional projection INT(errogative) in the left periphery of the sentence (Rizzi 2001) that is needed for an adequate analysis of interrogative clauses in Catalan and Occitan Pyrenees dialects. Since they show a particle se preceding a...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Rigau, Gemma|||0000-0001-5264-2812, Suïls, Jordi
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2010
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:67839
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/67839
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.98
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Complementizer
Interrogative clauses
Left periphery
Catalan
Occitan
Complementador
Oracions interrogatives
Perifèria esquerra
Català
Occità
Descrição
Resumo:The present paper offers further independent evidence for the functional projection INT(errogative) in the left periphery of the sentence (Rizzi 2001) that is needed for an adequate analysis of interrogative clauses in Catalan and Occitan Pyrenees dialects. Since they show a particle se preceding a wh phrase as an instance of the so called "doubly filled complementizer", according to the central hypothesis of this paper, the INT head is required in order to properly accommodate this element.