On ‘why’ in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan

Abstract

is not expected to surface clause-internally ('in situ'), yet it does in Trevisan, a Venetan dialect.In this paper, we present and discuss the different distributional properties of the two truth-conditionally equivalent why-words of Trevisan, parch and parcossa, and argue that their different distributional properties can be explained in terms of different external-merge sites, i.e., left-peripheral and TP-internal, respectively.

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