Causatives in Minimalism
Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 179] 2011. xx, 294 pp.
Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mercedes Tubino-Blanco plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King (eds.), pp. 143–160 | Chapter
We explore the connection between the clause left periphery and the referential values of inclusion or exclusion of the addressee associated with Spanish 1st Person Plural pronoun nosotros, otherwise morphologically marked in many world languages. We examine the referential values of nosotros in… read more
2017 Chapter 3. What’s up with dative experiencers? Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil, Lopes, Ruth E.V., Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino (eds.), pp. 29–48 | Chapter
In this paper we discuss the argument structure of psych verbs in connection with information structure, particularly object experiencer psych verbs (OEPVs), which select an accusative and/or dative argument. We propose that the natural order available in all-focus sentences for dative OEPVs is… read more