The raising of the thematic finite verb in bogotan spanish

Resumo

The grammatical theory from which the syntactic cartography descends is the X-bar theory, which is a hypothesis on the form of constituents in all languages. In the 80’s, the developments of the generative theory by Pollock (1989) gave us the now prevalent theory on the raising of the lexical verb. If one accepts this proposal, they have that adverbs are fixed elements within the sentence structure. The other elements raise across the positions where adverbs are merged. Thus, they can be used as diagnostics for verb movement. Within the Principles and Parameters Theory of generative grammar, the Cartography framework is a well- established line of research for the analysis of verb raising as it proposes that for each semantic class of adverb there would be a head position matching semantically the content of the corresponding adverb. In view of these considerations, the work intends to enrich the descriptive literature on Colombian Spanish, this time analyzed through cartographic lenses.