The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery
Julio Villa-García
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2] 2015. xv, 274 pp.
Julio Villa-García
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julio Villa-García plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface: Cliticization phenomena and beyond Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias, Lorenzo, Guillermo (ed.), pp. 15–44 | Chapter
A number of movement-related phenomena from Asturian as well as from the Spanish spoken in the Principality of Asturias are amenable to accounts where the Pronounce-Highest-Copy requirement in Phonetic Form can be overridden if convergence so demands. Therefore, the evidence adduced here… read more
2016 Early null and overt subjects in the Spanish of simultaneous English-Spanish bilinguals and Crosslinguistic Influence The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues, Klassen, Rachel, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino (eds.), pp. 350–395 | Article
This study assesses the scope of the Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) hypothesis’ predictions with regard to early bilingual acquisition. To this end, we analyze longitudinal corpus data from four bilinguals attesting the acquisition of subjecthood (null versus overt; preverbal versus postverbal)… read more
2010 To agree or not to agree: Beyond quintessentially syntactic agreement in Spanish Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009, Colina, Sonia, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.), pp. 249–266 | Article
Non-Caribbean Spanish is a prototypical null-subject language. Yet, verbs normally enter into an agreement relationship with the (overt/null) subject. In some cases, however, certain acceptable sentences contain an anomalously-agreeing subject in terms of one of the three agreement/ƒó-features,… read more