caa a22 4500 388066962 CHVBK 20180307125135.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959269500004683 doi S0959269500004683 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959269500004683 Jones Michael A. Dept. of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ Subject-clitic inversion and inflectional hierarchies [Elektronische Daten] [Michael A. Jones] This paper attributes the effects of subject-clitic inversion to a reversal of the normal hierarchy between Tense (T) and Mood (M) projections which is induced by certain modal or illocutionary features. The simple inversion pattern results from raising of the verb to M, while the subject raises to Spec TP. This structure provides a position (Spec MP) for the lexical subject in the case of complex inversion, without the need for multiple specifiers or additional functional categories. By raising to this position, the lexical subject binds a surrogate clitic in Spec TP, creating an argument Chain which contains a single theta-position and a single Case position. The implications of this analysis for subject questions and the phenomenon of stylistic inversion are also discussed in some detail. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Journal of French Language Studies Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-09), 181-209 0959-2695 9:2<181 1999 9 JFL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500004683 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500004683 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jones Michael A. Dept. of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of French Language Studies Cambridge University Press 9/2(1999-09), 181-209 0959-2695 9:2<181 1999 9 JFL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge