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Inversion, non‐adjacent inversion and adjuncts in CP[Note 1. This research was part of project 11–33542.92 funded by ...]
Author(s) -
Haegeman Liliane
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.00060
Subject(s) - inversion (geology) , interrogative , geology , linguistics , computer science , seismology , philosophy , tectonics
This article concerns subject‐auxiliary inversion in English. Typically, SAI is triggered by a preposed interrogative or negative constituent ( Under what circumstances would you go into the office during the holidays? On no account would I go into the office during the holidays ) which is then adjacent to the auxiliary. However, some speakers also accept patterns in which the interrogative or negative trigger for the inversion is non‐adjacent to the inverted auxiliary ( Under what circumstances during the holidays would you go into the office? On no account during the holidays would I go into the office ). This paper tries to account for this non‐adjacent inversion pattern in the light of the articulated structure of the left periphery of the clause elaborated by Rizzi (1997).