The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and debate surrounding the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of null-subject languages. The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverbal subjects are analyzed as non-arguments, it calls into question the proposed universality of the EPP (as in e.g. Alexiadou&Anagnostopoulou 1998), as well as its associated features and feature-stre...