Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and Romance

Jean-Yves Pollock, Emeritus Professor, University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Jean-Yves Pollock is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. He has previously held teaching or research positions at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, the University of Rennes 2, Harvard University, and the University of Picardy Jules Verne, and as a CNRS researcher at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. He specializes in comparative syntax, and has worked extensively on verb movement, the structure of the IP, impersonal sentences, questions, and relatives.

Introduction1. Subject clitics, subject clitic inversion, and complex inversion: Generalizing remnant movement to the Comp area2. A case study in comparative Romance interrogative syntax: Qu'est-ce que ^(qu)est-ce que?3. Arguing for remnant movement in Romance4. Remnant movement and smuggling in some Romance interrogative clauses5. The syntax of French ^qu'est-ce que clauses and related constructions6. French ^est-ce que yes/no questions and related constructions7. Free relatives and related constructions in French8. French que, quoi, ce que, and clefts