Book contents
- Exploring Interfaces
- Exploring Interfaces
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Road to Interfaces
- I Syntax–Lexicon Interface
- II Syntax–Semantics Interface
- III Linearization
- 8 Merge, Restructuring, and Clitic Climbing in Spanish
- 9 Linearization When Multiple Orderings Are Possible: Adjective Ordering Restrictions and Focus
- 10 Dialectal Variation in VOS Word Order in Spanish
- Index
- References
8 - Merge, Restructuring, and Clitic Climbing in Spanish
from III - Linearization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
- Exploring Interfaces
- Exploring Interfaces
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Road to Interfaces
- I Syntax–Lexicon Interface
- II Syntax–Semantics Interface
- III Linearization
- 8 Merge, Restructuring, and Clitic Climbing in Spanish
- 9 Linearization When Multiple Orderings Are Possible: Adjective Ordering Restrictions and Focus
- 10 Dialectal Variation in VOS Word Order in Spanish
- Index
- References
Summary
A well-studied phenomenon in Spanish (and in Romance languages in general) is clitic placement in constructions with so-called restructuring verbs, such as querer “want,” deber “must,” poder “can/may,” soler (habitual aspect), empezar “begin,” estar “be” – which are sometimes dubbed semi-auxiliary verbs, since they express modality and aspect – as well as the true auxiliary haber “have” (see Burzio, 1986; Cardinaletti & Shlonsky, 2004; Cinque, 2004, 2006; Perlmutter, 1983; Strozer, 1976; among many others). What is especially noteworthy about these constructions is that, when pronominal clitics are used, these may be associated either with the main finite verb or the lexical verb in a non-finite form.
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- Exploring Interfaces , pp. 211 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019