In the previous chapter, I established the main features that conjoined structures must have:
they must be c-command asymmetric, namely, one conjunct must c-command the others …

This introductory chapter provides background on the phenomena of Pseudo-Coordination
(PseCo) and Multiple Agreement Constructions (MACs) with the aim of familiarizing readers …

The grammatical category of mirativity refers to the linguistic expression of unexpectedness
or exceeded expectations (see Delancey 1997, 2001; Aikhenvald 2004, 2012; Peterson …

The present paper is focused on the study of those relations that auxiliary verbs can
establish among themselves when chained in a sequence. Regarding those sequences …

In the present thesis different configurations of Pseudo-Coordination are analysed. This is a
monoclausal syntactic construction, formed by two finite verbs with an optional connector a …

In this paper, I discuss a periphrastic construction involving the verb go in Sicilian that is
used to express surprise and unexpectedness with respect to a past event. I show that the …

Many languages of the world feature wh-exclamatives, and some of them also exhibit that-
configurations that can be used as root clauses expressing an exclamatory speech act; the …

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English'go and get') has been described for a number of
individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a …

Morphemes indicating direction away from the deictic center can signal an unexpected
event, without necessarily indicating motion in space: Look what he went and did this time …

Crosslinguistically, the development of the verb go into a future tense is a common path of
grammaticalization. In contrast, the past meaning of the go-periphrasis in Catalan is …