On the position of central adverbial clauses

• Autores: Vidal Valmala Elguea
• Localización: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology, ISSN 0582-6152, Vol. 43, Nº. 1-2, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Beñat Oihartzabali gorazarre - Festchrift for Bernard Oyharçabal), págs. 951-970
• Idioma: inglés
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  • One major concern of syntactic theory has been the identification of the structural position of adjuncts in the clausal architecture with the ultimate goal of explaining their properties in a number of respects. In this paper I concentrate on the analysis of central adverbial clauses, providing evidence that when in initial position they always appear in specifier positions, either in [Spec,TopP], as proposed in Borgonovo and Valmala (2009), or in [Spec,FocP]. Concerning their sentence-final position, I explore the traditional right-adjunction approach to the position of adverbials, the adjunct-in-complement analysis argued for in Larson (1988), Stroik (1990), Kayne (1994), and the adjunct-in-specifier approach defended in Baltin (2004) and Cinque (1999, 2006), showing that Cinque�s (2006) analysis is more adequate on both empirical and conceptual grounds.