Abstract
In a recent review of the cartographic approach to syntactic structures, Cinque & Rizzi (2010) suggested the possibility that functional hierarchies might be the
reflex of semantic principles of compositionality which have been grammaticalized. This view carries the implicit assumption that the relation between LF and
PF is isomorphic, at last for what concerns clausal operators. However, this assumption seems to be untenable once extended to clausal negation, where
cross-linguistic variation in the IP field (Zanuttini 1997, Ouhalla 1990, Miestamo 2003) and in the Left Periphery (Moscati 2010a) does not translate in an
analogous LF variation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Enjoy linguistics! |
| Subtitle of host publication | papers offered to Luigi Rizzi on the occasion of his 60th birthday |
| Editors | Valentina Bianchi, Cristiano Chesi |
| Place of Publication | Siena |
| Publisher | CISCL Press |
| Pages | 303-309 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9788890794308 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |