Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
List of John Benjamins publications for which Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach plays a role.
2018 Chapter 4. Afro-Hispanic contact varieties at the syntax/pragmatics interface: Pro-drop phenomena in Chinchano Spanish Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time, King, Jeremy and Sandro Sessarego (eds.), pp. 85–110 | Chapter
The Null Subject Parameter (NSP) has been the focus of much debate in the syntactic and pragmatic literature. Within the realm of Spanish and Portuguese, the analysis of two dialects that do not follow its predictions (Dominican Spanish (DS) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP)) has led to the postulation… read more
2017 Adverbial elatives in Caribbean Spanish Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 107–128 | Chapter
This paper is a study of the adverbial modifier bien and its use as an elative or operator of extreme degree in a Caribbean Spanish variety, Puerto Rican Spanish. It is argued that there are several properties setting the elative interpretation of bien apart from other well-known uses in other… read more
2016 Generalized gradability and extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (eds.), pp. 95–110 | Article
The expression of extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish is encoded in a series of modifiers, which are attached to adjectival, nominal or verbal elements. The proper treatment of this phenomenon requires a generalization of gradability and modification transcategorially. A semantic account is… read more
2014 Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses
and the left periphery Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 101–124 | Chapter
Spanish predicative verbless clauses, in which noun phrases display predicative content, are of interest for the study of the left periphery because they systematically involve displacement to this region of the clause. After considering several previous analyses, it is proposed that Spanish… read more
2014 Degree quantification and scope in Puerto Rican Spanish Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011, Côté, Marie-Hélène and Eric Mathieu (eds.), pp. 199–212 | Article
The possibility of preposing a degree delimiter before a negative term is a well-known feature of Caribbean Spanish in general. We present a detailed empirical analysis of the Puerto Rican case and we show that this possibility is due to a combination of syntactic and semantic factors that pertain… read more
2011 On the nature of bare nouns in Afro-Bolivian Spanish Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.), pp. 191–204 | Article
This paper provides an analysis of bare nouns in Afro-Bolivian Spanish. Their behavior does not fit the typology emerging from the Nominal Mapping Parameter. We consider several properties related to mass/count, kind, and indefinite/definite readings, and we conclude with an explanation based on… read more
2011 The valuation of gender agreement in DP: Evidence from Afro-Bolivian Spanish Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009, Berns, Janine, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer (eds.), pp. 133–148 | Article
This paper analyzes gender agreement in the Determiner Phrase in Afro-Bolivian Spanish. Our data shows a case of cross-generational change, transitioning from a basilectal Afro-Bolivian variety to the more prestigious standard Bolivian Spanish. Recent minimalist models account for variability as… read more
2010 Characterizing superlative quantifiers Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics, Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia and Ora Matushansky (eds.), pp. 187–232 | Article
The present paper develops a semantic analysis of superlative descriptions as a subclass of definite DPs: the definite determiner in superlatives (and not the superlative itself) is analyzed as the locus of the contextual restrictions. Evidence from presuppositions and from different dependent… read more
2009 Correlativization and Degree Quantification in Spanish Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, Masullo, Pascual José, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang (eds.), pp. 121–141 | Article
This article develops an analysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of Spanish degree-correlative constructions. A movement analysis for the construction is defended, along the lines of recent proposals on correlatives cross-linguistically. At the semantic level, the wh-form is claimed to… read more
2009 Context and the Scalar Implicatures of Indefinites in Child Spanish Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 93–116 | Article
In this chapter we review current work on the semantics-pragmatics interface in the adult language and present a description, from earlier work, of the distinct distribution and properties of two Spanish indefinite determiners: unos and algunos. We evaluate the degree to which current theories are… read more
2007 When scope meets modality: The scope of indefinites in subjunctive environments Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
In this paper, the claim that subjunctive mood affects the referential possibilities of Spanish indefinite DPs is reexamined. A host of new data is considered with the goal of framing the issue in the context of current debates on the semantics of these terms. It is also shown that purely-semantic… read more
2006 Sonority scales and syllable structure: Toward a formal account of phonological change Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 447–469 | Article
This paper develops an analysis of syllable-structure changes from Latin to Proto-Romance and Spanish within the framework of recent developments in the formal treatment of OT. Some aspects of the transition in syllable structure from Classical Latin (CL) to Vulgar Latin (VL) and Spanish will be… read more
2006 Review of Blackwell (2003): Implicatures in Discourse. The Case of Spanish NP Anaphora Studies in Language 30:1, pp. 179–183 | Review
2005 Review of Boeckx & Grohmann (2003): Multiple Wh-Fronting Studies in Language 29:3, pp. 706–711 | Review
2004 Book notice: “Conditionals. A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis” by Renaat Declerck and Susan Reed Studies in Language 28:2, pp. 465–468 | Miscellaneous
2003 Constraint interaction at the semantics/pragmatics interface: The case of clitic doubling Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 335–354 | Article
2003 Book notice: “New Approaches to Old Problems” by Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner (eds) Studies in Language 27:1, pp. 216–219 | Miscellaneous
2003 Book notice: “The Theme-Topic Interface. Evidence from English” by María Ángeles Gómez-González Studies in Language 27:2, pp. 463–467 | Miscellaneous
2003 Selective and Unselective Manner Operators Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa and Yves Roberge (eds.), pp. 131–147 | Article
2003
A scalar propositional negative polarity item in Spanish
A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001, Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael, Luis López and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 119–132 | Article
2002 Review of Lutz, Müller & von Stechow (2000): Wh-scope marking Lingvisticæ Investigationes 25:1, pp. 171–179 | Review
2002 The semantics of Spanish free relatives Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999, Satterfield, Teresa, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti (eds.), pp. 111–127 | Article
2001 Spanish exclamatives and the interpretation of the left periphery Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999, D’hulst, Yves, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten (eds.), pp. 167–194 | Article
2001 NP Movement and Adjective Position in the DP Phases Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras, Herschensohn, Julia, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Article
2001 Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997, Alexandrova, Galina M. and Olga Arnaudova (eds.), pp. 325–344 | Article
2000 The Semantics of Spanish Permission Sentences: A Dynamic Account Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages, Auwera, Johan van der and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 89–113 | Article
Abstract. In this paper the formal semantics of Spanish directive verbs, especially permissive deontic verbs, is studied. A dynamic perspective is adopted in which the meaning of an expression is not its truth conditions but its discourse update potential. The paper focuses on the following aspects… read more
1999 Spanish Indefinites and Type-Driven Interpretation Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998, Authier, Jean-Marc, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed (eds.), pp. 151–166 | Article
1999 Neuter relatives and the degree operator Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax, Treviño, Esthela and José Lema (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article
1999 Generalized minimalist grammars Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998, Martín-Vide, Carlos (ed.), pp. 19–52 | Article
1998 Locative and temporal weak proforms Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996, Lema, José and Esthela Treviño (eds.), pp. 205–226 | Article
