The syntactic variation of Spanish dialects This book offers a careful and comprehensive state of the art of the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects filling in a significant gap in the literature and opening the door to theoretical and empirical challenges. The volume focuses on both European and American vareties and addresses several syntactic constructions and phenomena Machine generated contents note: I. European Spanish 1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian Spanish Francisco Ordóñez and Francesc Roca 2. Mass count distinctions in Ibero Romance dialects Inés Fernández Ordóñez 3. Empty Categories and Clitics Juan Romero 4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperatives Julio Villa García 5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country Aritz Irurtzun 6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish Ángel Jiménez Fernández and Mercedes Tubino Blanco II. American Spanish 7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered Ángela Di Tullio Andrés Saab and Pablo Zdrojewski 8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian Spanish Miguel Rodríguez Mondoñedo 9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo Carlos Martín Sobrino and Melanie Uth 10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview. Ignacio Bosque and José M. Brucart 11. On left peripheral expletives in Central Colombian Spanish José Camacho 12. Reportative que in Mexican Spanish Esthela Treviño Subject Index Language Index