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Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs
Fábregas, Antonio; Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper provides an analysis of transparent gerunds in Spanish, as in ¿Qué llegó [silbando qué] Juan? ‘ What arrived [whistling what] Juan? ’ , using a decomposition of Aktionsart in a series of syntactic heads. A traditional analysis of these secondary predicates as adjuncts would undermine well-established syntactic principles restricting movement and extraction. We argue that ...