There is no need to climb! Clitic climbing as a facultative epiphenomenon of restructuring

Journal article

This paper explores the correlation between clitic climbing and restructuring. In particular, it offers evidence from Catalan and cross-linguistic data to demonstrate that restructuring is universal and that clitic climbing is a facultative epiphenomenon of restructuring. In this sense, the proposal presented here claims that restructuring verbs select an embedded clause headed by a Cdef/Tdef. It also shows that languages triggering clitic climbing display a higher degree of transparency and that the (un)availability of clitic climbing in a particular language is derived by the nature of the embedded v.

Authors: Paradís, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Journal: Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1-21
• Publication date: 2024-03-01
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.360
• EISSN: 2385-4138
• Language: English
• Keywords: clitic climbing; restructuring; infinitives; long-distance dependencies