Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 190] 2012
► pp. 257–278
I show that the position of the irrealis particle by in Polish conditionals correlates with constraints on Main Clause Phenomena (MCP). When by is in C0, MCPs are precluded; when it is in a lower position, MCPs are available. I suggest that the movement of by to C0 accompanies the A′-movement of a world operator in conditional clauses (Bhatt & Pancheva 2006). The operator movement acts as an intervener for MCPs (Haegeman 2007, 2010a, 2010b). I present evidence from MCPs such as contrastive to-topicalization, long extraction of adjuncts, speaker-oriented adverbs and the availability of correlativization. The different syntactic position of by is supported by evidence from the behavior of wh-pronoun-type vs. complementizer-type counterparts of if.
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