Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter

A Note on Complex Predicate Formation: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection, Re exivization, and Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian

French and Italian confront us with an interesting puzzle in the analysis of complex predicates. In both languages we nd constructions { involving e.g. causative verbs and so{called restructuring verbs (in Italian 2 ) { for which various authors have motivated an analysis in terms of complex predicate formation. 3 The most compelling criterion in support of this analysis is (object) clitic clim...

Participle-Auxiliary Word Orders in Slavic

In recent analyses, attention has been drawn to Participle-Auxiliary orders in Slavic. Such constructions have been argued to involve Long Head Movement of the participle: that is, head movement which does not obey the Head Movement Constraint, and which is taken to be an instance of a Last-Resort syntactic operation. The phenomenon, which appears in a number of Slavic languages, is seen in (b)...

Clitic pronouns and past participle agreement in Italian in three hearing impaired bilinguals Italian/LIS

The aim of this study is to assess the comprehension and to elicit the production of clitic pronouns in sentences with left-dislocation, in three adult hearing impaired bilinguals Italian/LIS and in four hearing speakers of Italian. The occurrence of clitic pronouns and the presence of past participle agreement in Italian are investigated through sentence completion and grammaticality judgement...

The Null Subject Parameter revisited. The evolution from null subject Spanish and Portuguese to Dominican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

This paper analyzes changes in the null subject parameter in Caribbean Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese varieties. Assuming a Minimalist framework that ascribes parametric variation to differences in lexical settings, it is argued that increased frequency of overt pronominals and an anti-locality principle against Spec, head grammatical interactions trigger a shift from interpretable to unintep...

The Attributive Past Participle: Structure and Temporal Interpretation