This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to
the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental …

It was back in the academic year of 2003–2004, while majoring in English at the University
of Oviedo, in Spain, that I first learned about the left periphery. The topic was part of a course …

Main clauses in Spanish optionally include a root complementizer. The presence of the
complementizer adds a reportative component to the meaning of the clause. This paper …

The paper investigates recomplementation (ie double-complementizer) constructions in
Spanish and provides a number of arguments in favor of analyzing secondary que as the …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

This dissertation focuses on the distribution of pre-and postverbal clitic alternations in both
matrix and finite embedded environments, in three Western Iberian Romance languages …

Highlights•Recomplementation is a strategy for reintroducing phrases in a quotative
clause.•There are 2 complement types for quotative verbs: quotative and reportative …

Además de su funcionamiento como elemento subordinante, la forma que funciona en
español, al igual que en diversas lenguas románicas, como introductora de oraciones …

This dissertation investigates the syntax of Spanish complementizers, with special attention
to double-complementizer constructions and non-high que'that'complementizers. The goal is …

Since the establishment of the so-called 'cartographic'enterprise, left periphery phenomena
in the Romance languages have been particularly influential in motivating theoretical …