The Subject Position in Spanish Nominalized Infinitives

Marcus Berger, University of Michigan 0. While much recent work has focused on various nominal and verbal properties of syntactic nominalizations, relatively little work has investigated how their internal structure is derived. Many authors adopt a ‘mixed projection’ hierarchy in which verbal projections appear interpolated into an otherwise nominal hierarchy. The resulting combination of projections accounts for the comcomitant nominal and verbal properties of the construction. However, once these projections are proposed, many authors assume the derivation to follow straightforwardly, which is not necessarily true. I address this problem by providing an analysis of these ‘mixed’ constructions in Spanish.