Split questions such as What tree did John plant, an oak? contain a wh-question part and a
tag. Drawing on Spanish, Basque and English data, this article argues that these two parts of …

This dissertation has two central foci:(i) it examines the behavioral contrasts of perspective-
sensitive elements such as evidentials in questions and assertions;(ii) it investigates the …

The neuter interrogative pronouns el qué and lo qué alternate with qué 'what'in
conversational Spanish in certain contexts and types of wh-questions (eg,–No me lo puedo …

In this paper, we discuss the evidential properties of inferential interrogative sentences with
qué in Spanish. This interrogative type exhibits the shape of a wh-question but the …

This article investigates the nature of preposition copying and preposition pruning structures
in present-day English. We begin by illustrating the two phenomena and consider how they …

This dissertation deals with the syntax of right dislocation (RD) with an empirical focus on
Romance languages. In RD structures, a constituent (the dislocated phrase or D for short) …

Ellipsis alternation refers here to the alternation between two kinds of ellipsis remnants
whose correlates are prepositional phrases. One kind of remnant includes the preposition …

The goal of this paper is to analyze the properties of (a special type of)'split interrogative'(SI)
constructions in Spanish. SIs are wh-questions followed by a phrase that constitutes a …

A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of
Georgetown University in partial fulfillm Page 1 THE SPANISH LEFT PERIPHERY: QUESTIONS …

En els registres col· loquials del català i de l'espanyol es troben, molt freqüentment,
construccions interrogatives com les següents:(1) a. Què anirem, al teatre? b. Què ho faràs …