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On Inversion in Wh-questions in Romance

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Abstract In most Romance languages, a subject may not intervene between a non-d-linked wh-argument and the inflected verb in main questions, as illustrated below for standard Italian (Iberian Spanish, Romanian, European Portuguese, and Catalan behave essentially in the same way): Several researchers (Ambar 1988; Raposo 1994; Rizzi 1991, 1997; Rizzi & Roberts 1989; Torrego 1984; Uriagereka 1995; among many others) have proposed that obligatory adjacency between fronted wh-arguments and inflection in Romance is due to overt Infl that is raising to the C-system. In this approach, Romance inversion in questions is analyzed on a par with English subject-Aux inversion:

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