Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics

✍ Scribed by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (editor); Luis Silva-Villar (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 364
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; 53
Edition: Reprint 2012
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
I. The structure and interpretation of the Determiner Phrase
Adjective position and the interpretation of indefinites
Issues in the syntax of DP in Romance and Germanic
The syntax ans semantics of preverbal topical phrases in Spanish
II. Clitics
On the doubling of overt operators
Interface conditions and the semantics of argument clitics
Adverbial weak pronouns: Derivation and interpretation
Universal constraints on ‘superfluous’ elements: The case of Galician ‘Arb Che’
Clitic-doubling and the acquisition of agreement in Spanish
III. Verbal and temporal properties, and the structure of the clause
The causee and the theory of bare phrase structure
Temporal modification, the 24-hour rule and the location of reference time
Ergative patterning in Spanish
Morphological underspecification and overt subjects in child Catalan and Spanish
Verbless derivations in historical syntax: A case study of Northwestern Iberian languages
Subject index
Language index
Contributors

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