In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant
contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful …

Many languages that display Differential Object Marking (DOM) and Clitic Doubling (CD),
like Spanish and Romanian, show specificity restrictions in both grammatical environments …

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 …

In this paper, an account of the differences between three varieties of Spanish with
accusative clitic doubling is proposed. The dialects studied are: Andean, Buenos Aires and …

Since the first groundbreaking publications in the eighties (Borer 1984, Jaeggli 1982, 1986,
Suñer 1988), extensive investigation of the properties of clitic doubling in different …

This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of
object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and secondary agreement through …

En este estudio analizamos las estructuras de doblado de objeto directo (OD) con clítico
acusativo en el español de Buenos Aires y Lima según los rasgos semánticos asociados al …

I examine syntactic and discursive factors conditioning the variable a-marking of inanimate
DOs in Argentine Spanish, using an online questionnaire which includes 16 contextualized …

The current study compares the distribution of clitic doubling (CD) in two varieties of
Spanish: Peninsular Spanish and Rioplatense Spanish. Based on two corpora of colloquial …

Linguistic research on Spanish clitic pronouns has analyzed the expression, placement, and
gender or number marking of direct (DO) and indirect objects (IO). We first provide a brief …