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Not always a stage. A typical patterns in Spanish copular clauses
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
The present paper focuses on cases that challenge the classical de!nition of the Spanish copula estar as stage-level, temporary or unstable predication by patterning with individual-level predicates (associated, by ...
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Wh-clitic-doubling and wh-Cliticisation
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
This article explores a pervasive phenomenon in Berber whereby the extraction of dative arguments (of verbs, nouns and prepositions) gives rise to two occurrences of wh. One is a wh-word located in Spec,C and the other ...
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An intervention account of the distribution of main clause phenomena: Evidence from ellipsis
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
Based on an examination of some asymmetries between VP ellipsis and VP fronting, this paper argues for an intervention approach and against a truncation approach to the distribution of main clause phenomena in adverbial ...
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Focus in Words with Truth Values
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
This article analyses the prosodic properties of words with truth values in Turkish. These are morphologically complex items that are finite predicates and that can function as declarative sentences. Researchers who have ...
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Afro-Hispanic contact varieties as conventionalized advanced second languages
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
This article focuses on some linguistic aspects of Afro-Hispanic contact varieties that have traditionally been ascribed to their supposed creole origin. Conversely, the present analysis suggests that such linguistic ...
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Is Topic a Root Phenomenon?
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
In this paper we discuss the question of whether topics are necessarily restricted to root clauses. From an interface perspective, if topics affect the management of the conversational common ground (Reinhart 1981; Büring ...
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Language Processing Evidence for Linguistic Structure
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
This article illustrates how data from language processing experiments might bear on theoretical linguistic issues and controversies. Based on the results from real-time processing studies of subject raising vs. subject ...
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The Problem of Fragment Answers
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2009)
In this paper, I discuss the status of fragment answers to yes-no questions, based on facts from European Portuguese. I argue, along the lines of argumentation in Merchant (2004), that there is reason to believe that at ...
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Interpreting quantifiers in subject position
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)
In this paper we argue that collective readings of quanti!ed NPs in subject position involve a form of hidden distributivity (Dowty 1987). We argue that there are two different types of collective predicates, and that ...