The Syntax-Information Structure Interface —— Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

----- 语法-信息结构接口：加利西亚语的词尾顺序和左边缘

ISBN: 9781614512714 出版年：2014 页码：308 Gupton, Timothy De Gruyter Mouton

The syntactic analysis of preverbal subjects has been the topic of debate for a wide variety of languages. This book establishes clausal word order preferences for Galician, a null-subject language of the Iberian Peninsula, based on quantitative and qualitative data. The experimental methodology and information structure assumptions employed create several testable predictions. The results suggest that, in a wide range of contexts, preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not clitic left-dislocated (CLLD) elements.