The role of the quantifier 'tot' in some catalan temporal phrases

This article analyzes two kinds of Catalan temporal adjuncts headed by the quantifier tot 'all': the intensive tot XP ('all XP') and the extensive tot XP que ('all XP that'), and offers an explanation for their different behavior. The selection restrictions imposed by the quantifier tot in temporal adjuncts and the restrictions on aspectual properties of the sentence predicate will be considered. Furthermore, the complementizer que 'that' in the constructions headed by tot XP que is analyzed as an aspectual-temporal marker that forces the situation expressed by the predicate to be interpreted as hodiernal (i. e. present tense or present perfect). Finally, it will be shown that temporal adjuncts provide an excellent opportunity to study the properties of the left periphery categories and the split of the complementizer layer proposed by Rizzi (1997).