Lessons from overtly-headed exclamatives in Spanish varieties Implications for the account of obligatory subject-verb inversion

Inverting wh-exclamative sentences with an overt complementizer in languages like Spanish pose a serious challenge to traditional accounts of obligatory subject-verb inversion. Such analyses assume either T-to-C movement or Spec,TP as an A-bar position capable of hosting wh-phrases and subjects alik...

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Published in:	Isogloss Vol. 10; no. 5; pp. 1 - 27
Main Author:	Villa-García, Julio
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bellaterra Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions 01.01.2024
Subjects:	Complementizers Dialects Exclamatives Grammatical subject Language varieties Languages Phrases Spanish language Syntactic movement Verbs Wh phrases
ISSN:	2385-4138, 2385-4138
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