Morpho-syntactic interactions between V and C in romance

• Autores: Ángel J. Gallego Bartolomé
• Localización: Dialectologia, ISSN-e 2013-2247, Nº. Extra 5, 2015, págs. 293-319
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper discusses a series of morpho - syntactic (a)symm etries that emerge in the vP and CP levels of different Romance languages. The (a)symmetries considered indicate a P or D oriented nature for specific functional heads placed in the vP and CP domains, an idea that has been at the forefront of micro - paramet ric studies ever since the 80s (cf. Kayne 1984, 2000; Uriagereka 1995). The consequences of this investigation for the status of parameter theory are further considered (cf. Chomsky 1981; Baker 2001; Biberauer 2008; Kayne 2000; Picallo 2014) and the study of the lexicon, arguably the main locus of linguistic variation (cf. Halle & Marantz 1993; Hale & Keyser 1993; Starke 2014; Uriagereka 2008).