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Notes es on Fi FinP as s landin ing site for V2 Giuseppe Samo Dpartement de Linguistique Universit de Genve giuseppe.samo@unige.ch Oslo, 09.03.2015 1 out of 19 Giuseppe Samo Universit de Genve Traces of History Oslo,
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➢ Verb (head) movement to C° ➢ XP moved to SpecCP ➢ Only one XP to the left of the finite verb
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(Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004 and Rizzi & Bocci, forthcoming)
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➢ ForceP ➢ TopicP / FocusP / ModP ➢ FinP
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'outer portion' of the CP where items might be base generated (HT, Scene Setting) (Poletto 2002: 279) The pillars of Hercules: no higher functional projections where items can move to.
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(3) Upphæðin, Þeir ákváðu hana strax. Sum-the (N) they determined it (A) immediately 'As for the sum, they payed it immediately' (Icelandic, Þráhinsson 2007: 358) (4) så i England fick jag alltid rostat bröd. so in England got I always toasted bread 'So (therefore) in England I always got toast. (Swedish, Bohnacker 2006: 453) (5) Giani, inier, ci a-al pa fat? John, yesterday, what has-he Interrogative Marker done? 'What has John done yesterday?' (Rhaeto-Romance, Poletto 2002: 232 (38b))
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(6) rameshan kyaa dyuntnay tse Ramesh (E) what gave you 'As for Ramesh, what is it that he gave to you? ' (Kashmiri, Bhatt 1999: 107 (37a)) (7) Hiora untrymnesse he sceal rowian on his heortan. their weakness he shall atone in his heart 'He shall atone in his heart for their weakness.' (Old English, Pintzuk 1999: 136) (8) Seinen neuen Aufsatz, wann sollen wir den lesen? His.acc new.acc article when should we it read? 'When should we read his new article?' (German, Hubert Haider, 03.12.2014)
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To VIVLIO sdhose i Maria sto Yani. the-acc book gave-3s the-nom Maria to-the-acc Yani 'It is the book that Maria gave to Yani.' (Greek, Tsimpli 1995: 177 (2b)) (10) ãal-kitaab-a wajada muhammad-un. the-book-ACC found Muhammad-NOM ‘THE BOOK, Muhammad found.’ (Standard Arabic, Shlonsky 2000: 329 (6a))
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(There) is a boy come
yesterday is {there) a boy come
Why is (there) a boy come ? (German, Vikner 1995: 69 (7))
*I am aware that TopP/FocP/ModP would match with an asymmetric view of V2 (Subj vs non-Subj) à-la Travis (1984) and Zwart (1997). I will not enter into details, however I will not buy such idea following Schwartz & Vikner (1996), van Craenenbroeck & Haegeman (2006).
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“Since Fin is not a criterial head, it does not assign any special interpretative property to its Spec” (Rizzi and Shlonsky 2006: 344)
position to the canonical subject position”
(12)
John regrets that this book shall I have read John regrets that I have read this book
I know that there has no one read the book I know that no one has read the book c Ég hélt að kysst hefðu hana margir stúdentar I thought that kissed had her many students I thought that many students had kissed her
I thought that her kissed had many students I thought that many students had kissed her
(Icelandic, Anderson 2012: 184 (7.4, 7.5))
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a. Al m a dit c DUMAN va-al a Venezia he me has told that tomorrow goes-he to Venice ‘He told me that he is going to Venice tomorrow.’ (Rhaeto-Romance, Poletto 2002: 224 (18a)) b. I swear that not a single book did he buy (English, Haegeman 2012: 9 (5))
Comp in ForceP/FinP Bridge Verbs
(14) *Er sagt, daß die Kinder haben diesen Film gesehen Er sagt, daß die Kinder diesen Film gesehen haben 'He says that the children (have) this film seen (have)' (German, Vikner 1995: 48 (36c, 36d)) (15) Ich glaube, gestern habe Maria dieses Buch gelesen. I believe yesterday has Maria this book read 'I believe Maria read this book yesterday' (German, Roberts 2004: 303 (20)) Giuseppe Samo Université de Genève
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Subject-Inversion in French in (16); (9), (10):
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Who that you have seen?
Who have you seen?
Who that have you seen? (Rizzi & Roberts 1996: 93 (6))
If XPs bear features, FinP as an escape hatch (Cardinaletti 2010).
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Buying a universalist point of view, FinP seems to be the landing site* of the Verb** that encounters least problems.
*maybe the first position where the verb lands in the CP ** Not only in V2 languages
Further research is still required. e.g. Syntax/Prosody; Syntax/Semantics and particles like Rhaeto-romance 'pa' (Poletto 2002), at the border between CP and IP; locality.
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