TY - JOUR AU - Sáez del Álamo, Luis Ángel PY - 2020/05/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Superlative QP “Hyper-Raising” in dialectal Spanish: the role of dormant Edge Features JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Articles on the monographic topic DO - 10.7557/1.9.1.5429 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/5429 SP - 55-67 AB - <p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In this paper I deal with a particular relative-clause superlative construction </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">attested in Spanish dialects like Canariense (Bosque &amp; Brucart 1991) and Puerto Rican (Rohena-Madrazo 2007), among others. In this construction the superlative quantifier raises to the left of the complementizer of the relative clause. However, as observed by Bosque &amp; Brucart (1991), only object quantifiers can move in this way; subject quantifiers cannot. I account for this assymmetry by assuming Bianchi’s (2000) raising analysis for relative clauses, Kandybowicz’s (2009) theory on edge features and Pesetsky &amp; Torrego’s (2001) proposal on Tense-to-Comp movement (among other assumptions). Object-quantifier movement correlates with Tense-to- Comp movement, which activates an edge feature for objects and allows them to escape the phasal minimal domain undergoing Transfer. This is not possible for subject-quantifier movement. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also propose that the determiner introducing a relative clause bears an uninterpretable [Superlative] feature with clitic-like properties. This feature forces the determiner to post-syntactically cliticize to the superlative quantifier degree word, a process which requires linear adjacency. This accounts for certain restrictions on this sort of superlative quantifier raising already pointed out by Bosque &amp; Brucart (1991) The proposal (similar to the one in Rohena-Madrazo 2007) that [Superlative] may also be in Force in these dialects (if selected for Force by the determiner) explains a more restrictive (and widespread) variant of this construction.</span></span></p><p lang="es-ES" align="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p> ER -