TYPES OF VERBAL MOVEMENT IN OLD SPANISH: MODALS, FUTURES, AND PERFECTS

This paper identifies three different types of movement affecting verbal items in O(ld) Sp(anish), or the period from roughly the 12th to the 15th Century. First, OSp exhibits VP-Preposing, or the fronting of a VP äs X, licensed by modals äs in (1). Although it is known that VP-Preposing exists in many languages, it is less known that only certain auxiliaries licenst this process in some languages.

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