Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions

• Published in: From Sounds to Structures Vol. 135; pp. 467 - 494
• Main Authors: Bocci, Giuliano, Cruschina, Silvio
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018; De Gruyter, Inc
• Subjects: Italian Dialectology; LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS; Language and Linguistics; Linguistics; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Phonetics, phonology; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Phonology; thema EDItEUR

The structure of this chapter is as follows. We first illustrate the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian wh-questions (§ 2). In Section 3, we present the results of a syntactic experiment on the distribution of subjects in the embed-ded clause of wh-questions. Our analysis is presented in Sec...