@article{beninca_case_2004,
	title = {A case of do-support in {Romance}},
	volume = {22},
	issn = {0167-806X},
	abstract = {In this paper we document the existence in a Romance language of a strategy of do (fa) insertion in main non-subject interrogatives parallel to the well-known English case. As our description illustrates, the set of contexts where do-support applies in this language is a proper subset of the English contexts. The syntax of fa-support in a language with typical Romance features allows us to draw some general conclusions regarding the analysis of English do-support and the interfaces between syntax and morphology, on one side, and syntax and lexical-semantic structure, on the other. First, we will show how fa-support in this Romance language constitutes evidence in favor of the hypothesis that V to C movement applies also in Romance main questions. Second, some aspects of Rizzi's (1991) proposal that subject wh-sentences have a CP structure with the wh- in SpecC is confirmed by the presence of an overt complementizer in the language we are dealing with. Thirdly, the phenomenon of Romance fa-support will lead us to further develop Pollock's idea that do-insertion is directly connected with the theta-grid of a verb: a main verb cannot move to a thematically opaque position, while auxiliaries can, as they do not have a theta-grid. In the Romance dialect we analyze some verbs move to C° (or use do-support) independently of their use as auxiliaries or as main verbs. In order to account for this aspect of the phenomenon, we suggest a more detailed description of the process.},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Natural Language \& Linguistic Theory},
	author = {Benincà, Paola and Poletto, Cecilia},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {51--94}
}

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