Current formal aspects of Spanish syntax and semantics
By: edited by Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781443838986
Subjects: Spanish language; Syntax; Semantics
Description: "This book is a compilation of articles on different aspects of Spanish grammar in the areas of current theoretical syntax and semantics. The issue brings together scholars working on some formal aspects of Spanish predicative complementation (e.g., 'dequeísmo'), neuter demonstrative pronouns, the subject of psych verbs, the nature of non-verbal predication, and the internal structure of the Determiner Phrase (DP), cf. gender variation, among other topics. Linguists and philologists with interests in Spanish and/or in other Romance languages are the main target audience. The book will appeal also to researchers and students specializing in generative grammar, semantics and in the syntax/semantics interface. It will also be of interest to historical linguists and dialectologists addressing theoretical/formal issues (cf. Afro-Bolivian Spanish). The research in this book points to a cohesiveness in Spanish linguistics that lies in the integration of up-do-date empirically-based linguistic research with current theoretical assumptions on the nature of syntax and semantics"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prediction, complementation and the grammar of dequeísmo structures / Luis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach; title: Spanish clitic placement : direct object clitics are markers of epistemic specificity / Verónica González-López; title: Relative and possessive features in colloquial Spanish / Manuel Delicado-Cantero; title: The subject of psych verbs in Spanish / Patricia Andueza; title: The use of demonstratives as discourse particles and the dimension of meaning / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Iker Zulaica-Hernández; title: Covert exclamatives (in Spanish) and LF / Pascual José Masullo; title: On the syntax and semantics of Spanish binominal noun phrases (cQBNPs) / Melvin González-Rivera and Manuel Delicado-Cantero; title: Characterizing medial and low complementizers in Spanish : recomplementation que and "jussive/optative" que / Julio Villa-García; title: The contribution of Afro-Hispanic contact varieties to the study of syntactic microvariation / Sandro Sessarego; title: Variation, universals, and contact induced change : language evolution across generations and domains / Sandro Sessarego and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach; title: Spanish PredNPs at the syntax-semantics interface / Melvin González-Rivera.