Force Phrase (ForceP)
鈾� ForceP: the highest position of the Left Periphery, connected with previous discourse in main clauses; its head is selected by a higher verb in embedded clauses.
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鈾� The head of ForceP is usually filled by a complementizer, a free functional morpheme, which often resembles听"demonstrative pronouns, wh-elements, certain kinds of nouns, etc." (Rizzi 1997: 285);听relative operators may occupy its specifier (Rizzi 1997: 289)
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鈾� Evidence from Italian shows that Topics can only follow Force, corresponding to the declarative complementizer听che听in (1):
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(1) Ho deciso che, la macchina, la comprer貌 quest'anno
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听听听听听 I decided that, the car, I will buy it this year'
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(Italian, Rizzi & Bocci, forthcoming)
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Main References听:Rizzi L. (1997), Rizzi L. & Bocci G. (2016)
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