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Imperatives, V-movement and logical mood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

María Luisa Rivero  and
Arhonto Terzi
María Luisa Rivero
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
Arhonto Terzi
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
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Imperative Vs with distinctive morphology either have a distinctive syntax (Modern Greek, Spanish), or distribute like others Vs (Serbo-Croatian, Ancient Greek). The contrast follows from properties of the root C. The first type has a strong Imperative V-feature in C, and under Chomsky's Greed Principle, Imperative Vs raise overtly to check this feature. The second type is the Wackernagel language, whose C hosts no features, but V-features are in I. If no phrase fronts, Vs move to C to support second position items. V-to-C affects all Vs, is last resort, follows Lasnik's Enlightened Self-Interest, and escapes Greed.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , September 1995 , pp. 301 - 332
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