Restructuring, head movement, and locality

Abstract

This article presents a novel account of the well-known restructuring phenomenon of the Romance languages, concentrating on Italian. I argue that it is possible to retain the benefits of an incorporation analysis while avoiding the associated difficulties by positing that infinitives in fact incorporate with restructuring verbs but that the resulting complex verb cannot be spelled out as such, owing to a constraint banning the realization of more than one morphological word under a single X 0 . I show how this analysis accounts for the Italian data discussed in Rizzi 1982 and Burzio 1986, as well as many facts from Old French, Dutch, and English

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