Los alumnos de la tutoría de “English Syntax” de la UNED del centro asociado Gregorio Marañón de Madrid pueden descargarse el resumen del tema 11 dedicado a Wh-Movement.

Wh-movement

Los alumnos de la tutoría de “English Syntax” de la UNED del centro asociado Gregorio Marañón de Madrid pueden descargarse el resumen del tema 10 dedicado a DP Movement.

DP-Movement.pdf

“Free exceptives and gapping. In favour of structural approaches to ellipsis”, comunicación seleccionada
BCGL4. The Fourth Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics. Ellipsis
HUBrussel, Bruselas, 9-10 de noviembre de 2009 (con Isabel Pérez)
Free exceptives and gapping. In favour of structural approaches to ellipsis

“The boundary between coordination and subordination. Free exceptives in Spanish”, comunicación seleccionada
Going Romance XXIII, Universidad de Niza/Universidad de Utrecht
Niza, 3-5 de diciembre de 2009 (con Isabel Pérez)
The boundary between coordination and subordination: Free exceptives in Spanish

“Construcciones exceptivas y la frontera entre coordinación y subordinación”, participación invitada
Seminario del Centre de Lingüística Teòrica de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona,
5 de junio de 2009, UAB Barcelona (con Isabel Pérez)

“Algunas reflexiones sobre la categoría gramatical de excepto y salvo”, comunicación seleccionada,
XXXVIII Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística
CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, 2-5 de febrero, 2009 (con Isabel Pérez)

El próximo seminario de Lingüística Teórica del grupo LyCC del CCHS-CSIC.

Thomas G. Bever
Normal group differences in the brain representation for language
15 de marzo, 17.00 h., Sala Manuel de Terán (3F8/3F23)
Resumen

El próximo seminario de Lingüística Teórica del grupo LyCC del CCHS-CSIC.

María Luisa Rivero
Verbos psicológicos con experimentante dativo y cambio histórico
24 de febrero, 16.30 h Sala Gil i Gaya (1E10/1E27)
Resumen

Tres artículos de reciente aparición en Natural Language \& Linguistic Theory cuyos temas o bien tienen que ver con la naturaleza de mi trabajo o me han interesado en algún momento.

• Bošković, Željko. (2008):”On the operator freezing effect”. NLLT 26.2:249-287

Abstract: Based on a number of operations creating operator-variable chains, namely, wh-movement, focalization, topicalization, quantifier raising, and the NPI-licensing movement, the article argues that operators in operator-variable chains cannot undergo further operator movement. It is shown that the generalization in question can be deduced from Chomsky’s (2000, 2001a) Activation Condition. The article also discusses the contexts where Bulgarian, a multiple wh-fronting language, allows extraction out of wh-islands. A new generalization is proposed regarding the ability of languages like Bulgarian to violate the Wh-Island Constraint in the contexts in question, which dissociates it from multiple wh-fronting and ties it to a property of D, in particular, availability of affixal articles

• Sigurðsson, Halldór. (2008): “The case of PRO”. NLLT 26.2:403-450

Abstract: Icelandic case agreement suggests that nominative case is active in PRO infinitives in much the same way as in finite clauses, thus posing a difficult and a long-standing problem for generative (GB and minimalist) case theory and the PRO Theorem. In this article, I examine the Icelandic facts in detail, illustrating that the unmarked and common nominative morphology in Icelandic PRO infinitives is regular structural nominative morphology, suggesting that PRO cannot be reduced to a copy. What went wrong in the GB approach to PRO was not PRO itself but the binding theoretic and ‘Case’ theoretic conception of it. PRO is an empty category that is simultaneously a reference variable (like overt pronouns and anaphors) and a phi-feature variable (unlike overt expressions). Due to this unique combination of variable properties, PRO cannot be deduced from other traits of grammar, such as movement, nor can it possibly be lexicalized. Importantly, also, the facts studied here suggest that case is a post-syntactic category, assigned in morphology. In contrast, Person is evidently a syntactically active category, having some of the properties and effects that have commonly been attributed to ‘Case’.

• Stepanov, Arthur and Tsai, Wei-Tien. (2008): “Cartography and licensing of wh-adjuncts: a cross-linguistic perspective”. NLLT Online First

Abstract: This article has two major foci. The first concerns the ‘cartography’of structural placement of wh-adjuncts how and why, a somewhat elusive and murky issue in modern syntactic research. The non-trivial character of this issue becomes clear once it is realized that each of these items encodes more than one lexical entry in some languages, and, furthermore, different lexical entries display different syntactic distribution. One goal is then to characterize the syntactic distribution of how and why controlling for their different cross-linguistic varieties. Once the “cartographical” issue is clarified, a number of novel questions arise concerning the mode of licensing of different varieties of how and why. This brings us to the second, theoretical, focus of the paper: a proper mechanism for licensing wh-in situ, and, in a broader sense, wh-items lower than CP. On the basis of diverse cross-linguistic material, we provide a number of arguments strengthening the Unselective Binding approach to licensing wh-in situ and show how potential challenges can be met in a revealing and explanatory manner.

Un trabajo escrito en colaboración con Isabel Pérez Jiménez. Se presentó en el simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, 2007, celebrado en Pamplona.

El margen izquierdo oracional en español: cláusulas absolutas periféricas y predicados incidentales

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• Gramatica de la Lengua Castellana – 1821
• Gramática de la Lengua Castellana – 1796
• Ortografía de la lengua castellana – 1792

• AGLE: Archivo Gramatical de la Lengua Española de Salvador Fernández Ramírez
• SHEEHAN DISSERTATION: EPP and Null Subjects in Romance

Mis enlaces de 2007-07-1 a 2007-07-3:

• Andrés Pablo Salanova
• Luisa Martí’s research
• La Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos (UDHR) en Unicode

Un trabajo escrito en colaboración con Isabel Pérez Jiménez en el que se investiga el carácter sintáctico de una parcela del lexicón, en particular la clase de verbos que denotan realizaciones graduales.

¿Son todos los verbos inacusativos aspectualmente atélicos en español? El papel de la telicidad en la interficie léxico-sintaxis. Norberto Moreno Quibén and Isabel Pérez Jiménez, (2005)

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En este trabajo escrito en colaboración con Isabel Pérez Jiménez se defiende la interpretación referencial de algunos SSNN escuetos (referential bare plurals) por influencia de la estructura informativa de la cláusula.

On the Referential Status of Bare Plurals. Norberto Moreno Quibén and Isabel Pérez Jiménez, (2004).

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