Abstract
The analysis of the French construction of Complex Inversion illustrated in (1) below raises difficulties with respect to current conceptions of available phrase structure:
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(1)
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Jean est-il malade?
‘Is John sick?’
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Depuquis quand Jean est-il malade.
‘Since when is John sick.’
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Sportiche, D. (1999). Subject Clitics in French and Romance Complex Inversion and Clitic Doubling. In: Johnson, K., Roberts, I. (eds) Beyond Principles and Parameters. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4822-1_8
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