The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

by Gallego, Angel J.

• ISBN13: 9780190634827
• ISBN10: 0190634820
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-10-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

?ngel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, a member of the Centre de Ling??stica Te?rica, and an ICREA Acad?mia researcher. His research focuses on areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, and Romance languages.

Table of Contents

I. European Spanish
1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian Spanish
Francisco Ord??ez and Francesc Roca
2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialects
In?s Fern?ndez-Ord??ez
3. Empty Categories and Clitics
Juan Romero
4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperatives
Julio Villa-Garc?a
5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country
Aritz Irurtzun
6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish
?ngel Jim?nez-Fern?ndez and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco

II. American Spanish
7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered
?ngela Di Tullio, Andr?s Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski
8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian Spanish
Miguel Rodr?guez-Mondo?edo
9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish
Rodrigo Guti?rrez-Bravo, Carlos Mart?n Sobrino, and Melanie Uth
10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview.
Ignacio Bosque and Jos? M. Brucart
11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian Spanish
Jos? Camacho
12. Reportative que in Mexican Spanish
Esthela Trevi?o

Subject Index
Language Index