Interrogative "inversion": syntax and semantics at the interface

在许多语言中，疑问句的解释是由一个通常被称为标签疑问倒装的过程触发的，即，屈折的动词向上移动经过另一个带有主语特征的成分，这可能导致这两个成分的线性位置颠倒。然而，这个标签是不够的，因为这一过程并不只发生在主要疑问句中。在许多具有倒装的变体中，倒装可以与多种解释联系在一起，疑问句只是其中的一种。我提出的这项研究的目的是找出语言(特别是罗曼语)是如何触发这些解释的，主谓倒置在多大程度上会导致语法上的结果，以及语言有哪些其他方式来传达这些解读。“倒装”并不是所有的罗曼史都能被接受的，因为根据语言的不同，它会与不同的参数选择相互作用。正是由于这一现象的横向性质，这项研究可以证明有助于揭示其他激烈争论的问题，如小句类型，CP层的结构。索引性的编码，主语的地位，以及北意大利方言中的一些限制可以显示的系词句式的结构。

In many languages, the interrogative interpretation is triggered by a process commonly referred to with the labelinterrogative inversion, that is, an upward movement of the inflected verb past another element bearing subject features,which can result in the inverted linear position of the two elements. Nevertheless, this label is not adequate, as thisprocess does not occur only in main interrogative sentences. In many of the varieties which possess it, inversion can beassociated with several interpretations, and the interrogative one is only one of them. The aim of the research I amproposing is to find out how languages (Romance varieties, in particular) trigger those interpretations, to what extentsubject-verb inversion results grammatical and what other ways languages have to convey those readings. "Inversion" isnot uniformly acceptable across Romance varieties, as depending on the language it interacts with different parametricchoices. Precisely for the transversal nature of this phenomenon, this study can prove useful to cast light on other lively-debated issues, such as clausal-typing, the structure of the CP layer. the encoding of indexicality, the status of subjectclitics and, as some restrictions in Northern Italian dialects can show, the structure of copular sentences.