Cetnarowska, BozenaKuczok, MarcinZabawa, Marcin2017-08-182017-08-182016Jiménez Fernández, Á.L., y Rozwadowska, B. (2016). The information structure of Dative Experiencer psych verbs. En M. Zabawa, M. Kuczok, B. Cetnarowska (Ed.), Various Dimensions of Contrastive Studies (pp. 100-121). Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego978-83-8012-918-4http://hdl.handle.net/11441/63849This paper presents an analysis of Dative Experiencer verbs in Spanish and Polish as compared to English within a parametric variation approach that groups languages into agreement-prominent and discourse-configurational ones. Based on a data elicitation experiment, we account for the surface word orderings of sentences with Dative Experiencers in terms of the feature inheritance theory. Assuming discourse features such as [Top] or [Foc], we argue that English and Polish move Experiencers to TP if they are not discourse-wise marked; otherwise, they move to CP. Spanish may move DEs to TP for both reasons: agreement and discourse.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Psych verbsDative ExperiencersFeature inheritanceInformation structureTopicFocusDiscourse prominenceAgreement prominenceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess