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Locative inversion in Germanic and Romance
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This chapter investigates locative inversion (LI) in Germanic and Romance, a subject inversion involving a preposed locative expression. LI appears in two primary types: overt LI and covert LI, where a locative reading obtains without a preposed locative. Covert LI occurs in null-subject languages, where a covert locative argument satisfies formal subject requirements. English LI is always overt, yet French only allows covert LI with verbs of appearance. Furthermore, Romance permits embedded and matrix LI, but English prohibits the former. This chapter proposes that cross-linguistic variation follows from varying conspiracies of syntactic and pragmatico-semantic factors. Firstly, verbs of appearance select a locative covert experiencer, which satisfies the French EPP. Secondly, multiple formal ingredients interact in different distributions to produce various instantiations of LI: an EPP in TP, and the ability of locatives to check: the EPP (Dutch), Subject of Predication (Italian), EPP and SoP (French), and EPP and Topichood (English).
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Title: Locative inversion in Germanic and Romance
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This chapter investigates locative inversion (LI) in Germanic and Romance, a subject inversion involving a preposed locative expression.
LI appears in two primary types: overt LI and covert LI, where a locative reading obtains without a preposed locative.
Covert LI occurs in null-subject languages, where a covert locative argument satisfies formal subject requirements.
English LI is always overt, yet French only allows covert LI with verbs of appearance.
Furthermore, Romance permits embedded and matrix LI, but English prohibits the former.
This chapter proposes that cross-linguistic variation follows from varying conspiracies of syntactic and pragmatico-semantic factors.
Firstly, verbs of appearance select a locative covert experiencer, which satisfies the French EPP.
Secondly, multiple formal ingredients interact in different distributions to produce various instantiations of LI: an EPP in TP, and the ability of locatives to check: the EPP (Dutch), Subject of Predication (Italian), EPP and SoP (French), and EPP and Topichood (English).
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