A prosodic constraint on wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects

• Carlos Muñoz Pérez ^[1] ; Matías Verdecchia ^{[2] [3]} ; Fernando Carranza ^{[2] [3]}
  1. [1] Universidad Austral de Chile

     Universidad Austral de Chile

     Valdivia, Chile

     
  2. [2] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

     Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

     Argentina

     
  3. [3] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     

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• Localización: Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, ISSN-e 2385-4138, Vol. 8, Vol. 4 (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory (RLLT) 18), 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: RLLT18, Selected papers from LSRL51 at Urbana-Champaign)
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  • This paper introduces a series of mitigating circumstances improving the acceptability of wh-extraction from preverbal infinitival subjects in Rioplatense Spanish. It is argued that the factor behind these amelioration effects is encoded in prosodic structure, much in line with the hypothesis that certain island restrictions apply at PF. The linguistic principle accounting for the phenomenon is proposed to be a faithfulness constraint at the syntax-prosody interface stating that an extraction domain XP cannot be mapped as a prosodic word ω at PF. An alternative syntactic account based on freezing is shown to be unable to capture the relevant contrasts.