ABSTRACT
The extended projection principle (EPP), the requirement that an argument DP must overtly raise to the inflectional layer of the clause, is often assumed not to hold in Spanish, but this chapter argues that it does. The standard evidence against the EPP in Spanish is reviewed, including word order, scope effects, and the behavior of preverbal subjects, but I will also show that certain other facts argue in favor of the EPP, including the information status of preverbal subjects and the relation among preverbal subjects, topics, and fronted focus phrases. The evidence against the EPP is analyzed more deeply, and I will show that the facts actually support the existence of an EPP requirement in Spanish. This casts doubt on the claim that null-subject languages do not have an EPP and opens up the possibility that the EPP may be universal.
