Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire ![Imprimer Print](design/print.png)
Titre | (Non-)lexicalisation of the different left-peripheral heads across Spanish varieties | |
Conférencier | Julio Villa Garcia (University of Manchester) | |
Date | mardi 20 novembre 2018 | |
Heure | 12h15 | |
Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) | |
Description |
The mapping of the left periphery (in Romance) has traditionally relied on the study of different CP-related phenomena such as topics, questions, exclamations, preposed adverbials, and foci, which led to Rizzi’s articulated left periphery/split CP (i.e., ForceP > TopicP > FocusP > FinitenessP). In this talk, I concentrate on the lexical (non)realisation of left-peripheral heads by means of que ‘that’ (from Lat. QUID) cross-dialectally in Spanish. I take a microcomparative view and submit that different (diachronic and synchronic) varieties of Spanish (and Romance) (i) require overt que, (ii) optionally have que, or (iii) cannot have que as the head of the phrase hosting a particular CP-related phenomenon. An important question is how to account for the microvariation observed in the realisation of the relevant heads. In other words, how can we parameterise the presence/absence of que as the manifestation of the relevant C-heads? Relevant questions include whether the presence/absence of que is just a matter of PF spellout (i.e., que/que) or rather, whether sentences with and without que mask different underlying derivations altogether. |
|
Document(s) joint(s) |
|