TY  - CHAP
AU  - Bocci, Giuliano
AU  - Cruschina, Silvio
ED  - Petrosino, Roberto
ED  - Cerrone, Pietro
ED  - van der Hulst, Harry
AB  - The structure of this chapter is as follows. We first illustrate the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian wh-questions (§ 2). In Section 3, we present the results of a syntactic experiment on the distribution of subjects in the embed-ded clause of wh-questions. Our analysis is presented in Section 4, where we directly relate the syntactic and prosodic peculiarities of Italian wh-questions to the successive cyclic nature and to the intermediate positions of wh-movement. We show that while subject inversion is a phenomenon that involves the edge of the C-phrase, the assignment of NPA additionally involves the vP-edge. We then attempt to capture the observed patterns and to provide further support to our analysis by comparing direct and indirect wh-questions with respect to both subject inversion and their prosodic properties (§ 5). A summary and some final remarks close the chapter.
DO  - 10.1515/9781501506734-017
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006338
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135850114
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Morpho-phonology
KW  - Morpho-syntax
KW  - Italian Dialectology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/1502b239-f7f5-4161-b354-f9e3c7f27bff/86_[9781501506734 - From Sounds to Structures] Postverbal subjects.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23801
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781501515347; 9781501506635
TI  - Chapter Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questionsnull
ER  - 
