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Movement at LF Triggered by Mood and Tense

On the assumption that subjunctive-selecting predicates in Italian introduce a relatively low-level intensional operator (IO) into logical form (LF), the interaction of mood, tense, & sentential negation (SN) at LF is analyzed to argue that mood & tense determine the LF movement of nominals...

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Published in:Folia linguistica 1995, Vol.29 (3-4), p.195-222
Main Authors: Brugger, Gerhard, D’Angelo, Mario
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Language:English
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Summary:On the assumption that subjunctive-selecting predicates in Italian introduce a relatively low-level intensional operator (IO) into logical form (LF), the interaction of mood, tense, & sentential negation (SN) at LF is analyzed to argue that mood & tense determine the LF movement of nominals & embedded sentences. Two LF landing sites above & below the tense projection (TP) are identified; the lower site is shown to be above the position of SN, which in turn dominates the IO. It is proposed that indicative mood is an anti-IO polarity item & an anti-SN polarity item, triggering LF movement of indefinites beyond the scope of these operators; subjunctive mood, in contrast, is both an IO polarity item & a SN polarity item. By the same reasoning, the Italian present tense is held to be an antipast polarity item, triggering movement beyond the scope of the past feature in TP. 59 References. J. Hitchcock
ISSN:0165-4004
1614-7308
DOI:10.1515/flin.1995.29.3-4.195