7 A syntactic account for subject positioning in Italian and Spanish WHY-interrogatives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Danksagung – Agradecimientos – Ringraziamenti VII
3. Contents IX
4. 1 Why WHY? 1
5. 2 Word order, information structure, and wh-interrogatives in Italian and Spanish 6
6. 3 Word order variation in Italian and Spanish WHY-interrogatives: current state-of-the-art and research questions 55
7. 4 Data and methods 79
8. 5 On the syntactic position of WHY: an analysis of WHY-x-V sequences 108
9. 6 Subject positioning in Italian and Spanish WHY-interrogatives: disentangling the relevant factors 127
10. 7 A syntactic account for subject positioning in Italian and Spanish WHY-interrogatives 176
11. 8 WHY-interrogatives in Italian heritage speakers: at the interface between syntax and discourse 197
12. 9 Conclusion 212
13. Bibliography 215
14. Index 233