Chapter Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions

• Main Author: Bocci, Giuliano (auth)
• Other Authors: Cruschina, Silvio (auth), Petrosino, Roberto (Editor), Cerrone, Pietro (Editor), van der Hulst, Harry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
• Subjects: linguistics; Phonetics, phonology; Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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...