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Right Peripheral
Fragments
Right dislocation
and related phenomena
in Romance
Javier Fernández-Sánchez
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Right Peripheral Fragments
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Right Peripheral Fragments
Right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance
by Javier Fernández-Sánchez
Right Peripheral Fragments
Right dislocation and related phenomena
in Romance
Javier Fernández-Sánchez
University of Gdańsk
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter 1
Introduction 1
1.1 Word order and information structure 1
1.2 Dislocations: A structural paradox 6
1.3 Organization of the book 13
Chapter 2
A tale of two clauses 17
2.1 The biclausal analysis 17
2.1.1 D as a fragment 18
2.1.2 Specifying coordination 23
2.2 Deriving the properties 25
2.2.1 D is internal to the HC 25
2.2.2 D is external to the HC 30
2.3 Against a D-K structural link 34
2.3.1 RD as a doubling phenomenon 34
2.3.2 Right dislocation isn’t resumption 45
2.3.3 Summary 46
2.4 On extraction from D 46
2.4.1 López (2009) and Villalba (2000) 47
2.4.2 Samek-Lodovici (2015) 50
2.5 Implications for prosody 54
2.6 Concluding remarks 58
Chapter 3
Previous accounts 61
3.1 D is in situ 62
3.1.1 Right dislocation as LF movement 62
3.1.2 Problems 64
3.2 Peripheral approaches 68
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3.2.1 Movement vs base generation 68
3.2.2 Remnant movement 70
3.3 Middle field approaches 73
3.3.1 The low periphery 73
3.4 The right roof constraint 77
3.5 Left-right asymmetries 80
3.5.1 Asymmetry 1: Extraction 80
3.5.2 Asymmetry 2: ECP effects in French 82
3.5.3 Asymmetry 3: Aux-to-comp in Italian 83
3.5.4 Asymmetry 4: Obviation effects 85
3.5.5 Asymmetry 5: Reconstruction and principle C 89
3.5.6 Asymmetry 6: Variable binding 92
3.5.7 Interim summary 94
3.6 D is external to the clause 94
3.7 Summary 97
Chapter 4
Locality without movement 99
4.1 On movement and ellipsis 100
4.1.1 The (syntactic) licensing of ellipsis 100
4.1.2 Challenges for mada 103
4.1.3 Ellipsis as radical deaccentuation 105
4.2 Islands 109
4.2.1 The Dutch data 110
4.2.2 The Romance data 113
4.3 The minimal coordination hypothesis 116
4.3.1 Dutch (multiple) extraposition 117
4.3.2 Interim summary 123
4.3.3 The MCH in Romance 124
4.3.4 Where does the MCH derive from? 128
4.4 Multiple dislocations 130
4.4.1 Clause-mate dislocations 131
4.4.2 Dislocation from different clauses 133
4.4.3 Recursive dislocations 135
4.4.4 Wrapping up 136
4.5 D does not move 137
4.5.1 Lack of motivation 137
4.5.2 Scope 138
4.5.3 A note on P-stranding 141
4.6 Conclusion 142
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Chapter 5
Other right peripheral fragments 145
5.1 Introduction 145
5.1.1 The right periphery of the clause 145
5.1.2 A structural paradox 146
5.1.3 The biclausal solution 149
5.2 RD as a (force-)dependent RPF 150
5.2.1 Two types of RPF 150
5.2.2 RDs vs AT/SQs 151
5.2.3 A proposal 156
5.3 In situ fragments 158
5.3.1 Islands 160
5.3.2 Complementizers and sentential RPF 166
5.3.3 Scope 169
5.3.4 Interim summary 172
5.4 Predicative afterthoughts 172
5.4.1 A copular source 172
5.4.2 Properties of D 175
5.4.3 Movement of D 180
5.4.4 A brief note on PredNPs 182
5.5 Other right peripheral fragments 186
5.6 Conclusion 187
Chapter 6
Concluding remarks 189
References 193
Index 213
Acknowledgements
This monograph is a revised version of my PhD dissertation, defended in June
2017 in Bellaterra, Spain. I would like to thank my supervisor, M. Lluïsa Hernanz,
as well as all of the amazing linguists at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Univer-
sitat Autònoma de Barcelona), in particular Ángel Gallego, Josep M. Brucart and
Carlos Rubio, for their generosity and their help.
I spent a semester at the University of Groningen in 2014, where I greatly
benefitted from comments and discussion with Mark de Vries, Jan-Wouter Zwart,
Marlies Kluck, James Griffiths and Güliz Güneş.
Special gratitude also goes to Dennis Ott, for having discussed with me plenty
of issues in this work, as well as Aritz Irurtzun, Antonio Fábregas, Vieri Samek-
Lodovici, Manuel Leonetti and Vicky Escandell-Vidal.
I would like to thank the series editors Elly van Gelderen and Werner Abrahan
for having accepted this book for publication, as well as an anonymous reviewer.
