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Discourse-Agreement Features, Phasal C and the Edge: a Minimalist Approach
(Universidade do Minho, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (CEHUM), 2010)
In this paper I deal with the syntactic process of AGREE in the Minimalist Pro¬gram, the role of discourse/agreement features in it and their combination with an EF (edge feature) to trigger attraction. Miyagawa (2005) has ...
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When focus goes wild: An empirical study of two syntactic positions for information focus
(Faculty of Humanities, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, 2015)
My goal in the present paper is to carry out an analysis of the syntactic and discourse properties of Information Focus (IF) in Southern Peninsular Spanish (SPS) and Standard Spanish (SS) varieties. Generally, it has ...
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Extraction out of adjectival secondary predicates in English and Spanish: A nanosyntactic account
(2016)
In this article, we explore the conditions under which prima facie adjectival adjuncts projected as depictive modifiers inside verbal phrases allow extraction. Building on the analysis of gerund clauses proposed in ...
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A feature-inheritance approach to root phenomena and 2 parametric variation
(Elsevier, 2014)
This work concerns itself with Root Transformations (RT), specifically discussing the RT/non-RT nature of topic fronting in English, Japanese, and Spanish. We claim that this fronting is in principle compatible with all ...
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Variación sintáctica en la causativización léxica
(2014)
La investigación de los patrones de causativización léxica (directa) de intransitivos es un tema fundamental en el campo léxico-semántico, puesto que las posibilidades y restricciones en la causativización de estos verbos ...
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Towards a typology of focus: Subject position and microvariation at the discourse-syntax interface
(Elsevier, 2015)
In this work I explore the different discourse-syntax interface properties of focus fronting in Standard Spanish (SS) and Southern Peninsular Spanish (SPS) including Andalusian and Extremaduran varieties. In SS it is taken ...
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Negative Preposing: Intervention and Parametric Variation in Complement Clauses
(2018)
This work deals with root transformations (RTs) such as negative preposing in English and Spanish. I claim that RTs may in principle be compatible with all types of embedded clauses, regardless of whether the selecting ...
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Feature inheritance, vP phases and the information structure of small clauses
(University of Lund ; Blackwell, 2013)
In this paper we explore the interaction of discourse properties in the syntax of small clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. In line with Chomsky’s (2007, 2008) idea that phasal properties should be extended to ...
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On the order of multiple topics and discourse-feature inheritance
(Ankara Üniversitesi, 2011)
This paper explores two possible syntactic configurations of multiple topics attested across languages, namely the strict vs. free arrangement of fronted topics in the left periphery. I suggest that these rigid/flexible ...