Abstract
An economical account of Focus in the right periphery in Romance languages can be offered if rightward movement is allowed in the PF component. In this paper I redefine p(rosodic)-movement as a postsyntactic phenomenon that does not care about directionality (cf.Erteschik-Shir and Strahov 2000), thus challenging accepted wisdom
(Zubizarreta 1998).
(Zubizarreta 1998).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 163-196 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Journal | Linguistic Analysis |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 1-4 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Spanish language
- bilingualism
- linguistics