Current issues in Spanish syntax and semantics / edited by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Luis Silva-Villar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier.

Silva-Villar, Luis, 1954-

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 53.

Studies in generative grammar ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Clitics.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Verb.

Spanish language--Determiners.

Physical Description:

vi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.

Contents:

I. The structure and interpretation of the Determiner Phrase

Adjective position and the interpretation of indefinites / Ignacio Bosque 17

Issues in the syntax of DP in Romance and Germanic / Enrique Mallen 39

The syntax ans semantics of preverbal topical phrases in Spanish / Eugenia Casielles Suarez 65

II. Clitics

On the doubling of overt operators / Jon Franco 85

Interface conditions and the semantics of argument clitics / Javier Gutierrez-Rexach 107

Adverbial weak pronouns: Derivation and interpretation / Javier Gutierrez-Rexach 143

Universal constraints on 'superfluous' elements: The case of Galician 'Arb Che' / Victor M. Longa, Guillermo Lorenzo 175

Clitic-doubling and the acquisition of agreement in Spanish / Marta Lujan, Claudia Parodi 193

III. Verbal and temporal properties, and the structure of the clause

The causee and the theory of bare phrase structure / Luis Lopez 221

Temporal modification, the 24-hour rule and the location of reference time / Gerhard Brugger 243

Ergative patterning in Spanish / J. Clancy Clements 271

Morphological underspecification and overt subjects in child Catalan and Spanish / John Grinstead 291

Verbless derivations in historical syntax: A case study of Northwestern Iberian languages / Luis Silva-Villar 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

3110169290

OCLC:

47643878