Abstract
Much of the research on word order in Romance languages lump Spanish and Italian together and contrast them with French. Spanish and Italian, but not French, are said to allow “free inversion” of the subject. This view is based on the fact that “subject post-posing” in French is only possible in the presence of a triggering element, namely an operator in Comp (a wh-word or its trace) or a subjunctive mood (which might also be analyzed as an operator in Comp). Such a construction, illustrated in (1c-e), is known as stylistic-inversion.1
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Zubizarreta, M.L. (1999). Word Order in Spanish and the Nature of Nominative Case. In: Johnson, K., Roberts, I. (eds) Beyond Principles and Parameters. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4822-1_9
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