Taeshig Shin . 2011. Overt movement in non-finite clause of the Medieval Spanish . Language Information . volume 13. 23-44.
The objective of this paper is to give strong support to the idea of overt movements in non-finite clause based on the linearization pattern of clitics. This paper will be rather descriptive, spiraling around the placement pattern, with a basic orientation towards surface-level order of words given the corpus of Medieval Spanish. In addition, the debate is going on with regard to the same hierarchical structure of Medieval Spanish shown in non-finite clause as is shown in finite clause. As suggested for Medieval Spanish examined in this paper, overt movement in non-finite clause is to be entirely accounted for in the hierarchical structure of sentence. Within the theoretical framework of Principles and Parameters, in particular, the placement effect of clitics to their infinitive are optionally subject to the parameters of variation, which the paper place among the functional features of the category Tense, and depends on the projection of a discourse-related category TopP superior to TP in non-finite clause of Medieval Spanish. (Research Institute for language & Information, Korea University)
Key words: overt movement, non-finite clause, finite clause, discourse-related, structural change, parameter, reduplication, linearization pattern, hierarchical structure