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(28) Espero (*avui) (*en Joan) que (avui) (en Joan) el veuré
I-hope (today) (the J.) that (today) (the J.) him-I'll-see
'I hope that Joan I will see today'
If we consider relative clauses with a Wh-phrase, the facts are parallel in that clause
adjuncts follow the Wh-phrase (in this case pre-Wh adjuncts are in fact worse than pre-'that'
adjuncts, probably because relative clauses have to be adjacent to the NP they modify):
(29) La noia (*avui) de qui (avui) hem parlat
The girl (today) of who (today) have-we talked
'The girl about whom we talked today'
If we shift to interrogative Wh-phrases, however, the facts are reversed: adjuncts and
dislocated elements can precede (at least in colloquial speech) the Wh-element but cannot follow
it at all: 171
(30) No sé (en Joan) quan (*en Joan) el veuré
Not know-I (the J.) when (the J.) him-will-I-see
'I don't know when I will see Joan'
It is reasonable to assume that clause adjuncts cannot be adjoined to CP in general: this is
what 0 and 0 suggest. 172 Adjunction to IP, instead, seems to be allowed quite freely in many
think it is an independent problem.
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171 We already discussed some of these facts in Chapter 4,
172 This is also a necessary assumption for V-second