This dissertation investigates the nature of Differential Object Marking (DOM), using Spanish
as a case study. It proposes that DOM arises from an interaction between case and …

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 …

Figure 1.1 The (inverted) T/Y-model 7 Figure 1.2 Reinhart's (2006) model 10 Figure 1.3
Jackendoff's (2002) model 18 Figure 1.4 Structure of the cats in the parallel architecture …

Chomsky (1973) attributes the island status of nominal subjects to the Subject Condition, a
constraint specific to subjects. English and Spanish are interesting languages for the …

The study of focalization processes, particularly as related to displacement or syntactic
movement, is important for current syntactic theorizing because it provides a unique …

It is most often claimed that in Spanish constituents in narrow presentational or information
focus appear rightmost, where they also receive main sentence stress, while shifting the …

The grammars of bilinguals have been found to differ from those of monolinguals especially
with regard to phenomena that involve the interface of syntax and discourse/pragmatics …

The strategies used to signal information focus—the non-presupposed part of a sentence—
in Spanish are under debate. The literature suggests that focus must appear rightmost; …

Research on second-language (L2) acquisition has identified linguistic domains that appear
to be especially difficult to learn—one such sticking point being syntactic structures that …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified account of the behavior of wh-in-situ
questions in Spanish (ie, non-neutral word order and the Sentence Final Requirement). The …