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The heterogeneous nature of verbal alternations: What information structure can tell us about it
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2023)
In this paper, I discuss Dative Alternation and Locative Alternation, proposing a cross-linguistically heterogeneous behavior of verb alternates. I explore information structural factors and study the ...
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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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English/Spanish Relatives and Their Relative Information Structure: A View from Language Contact in Puerto Rico
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions, 2023)
The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) such as Negative Preposing (NPr) in four types of relative clauses, namely definite restrictive, indefinite restrictive, non-restrictive and ...
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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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Inferential Interrogatives with qué in Spanish
(MDPI, 2023)
In this paper, we discuss the evidential properties of inferential interrogative sentences with qué in Spanish. This interrogative type exhibits the shape of a wh-question but the interpretation of a polar question. These ...
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On the composite nature of subject islands: a phase-based approach
(2009)
This paper focuses on the complex factors which render subject domains opaque to subextraction. Subjects have been held to be islands for extractability possibilities. Gallego & Uriagereka (2006) suggest that sub-extraction ...