Full Description
Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish: Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach brings together a collection of articles from leading experts in the fields of formal syntax and semantics.
With a specific focus on interface-related phenomena, the articles address a broad array of issues in Spanish grammar. In so doing, the book offers an updated view on current research topics while providing a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives.
The volume will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and scholars working on Spanish syntax, semantics and their interfaces.
Contents
The syntax-semantics interface: current issues in the field 1.On the synax of Spanish unconditionals 2. On the meaning of complementizers: a proposal based on Spanish exclamative sentences 3. Case and the computation of nominal reference 4. Substantivized embedded interrogative and exclamative finite wh-clauses in Spanish 5. Conflation of artistic practices and verbal features in Pablo Picasso 6. Scoping in degree exclamative sentences 7. Variability in syntactic-semantic cycles: evidence from auxiliary chains 8. On the grammar of Spanish qualitative binominal noun phrases 9. Contact-driven restructuring at the interface: aspects of variable phi-agreement across the Afro-Hispanic DP
