This paper is devoted to the study of bare nominal arguments (ie, determinerless NPs
occurring in canonical argumental positions) from a crosslinguistic point of view. It is …

The use of the preposition a with direct objects in Spanish is a well known instance of the
general phenomenon of Differential Object Marking (DOM). In Spanish grammars the …

This dissertation introduces clitic doubling data from Leísta Spanish (a dialect spoken in the
North of Spain). In this dialect, the dative form clitic is used as a direct object clitic when the …

Semantic accounts of the definite article have tended to fall into two general
classes:'uniqueness' accounts (Russell, 1905), and 'familiarity'accounts (Heim, 1982; see …

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words
such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a …

Milsark introduced the terms weak and strong to distinguish (respectively) the nominals that
could appear in English there‐existential sentences (eg, some trees, cf. There are some …

In many Romance languages, negative expressions exhibit a robust distributional
asymmetry. When in post-verbal positions, they require theco-presence of negation; when in …

La plupart des théoriciens s' accordent pour supposer qu'en l'absence de déterminant, les
noms, ainsi que leurs projections lexicales (les constituants N+ Adj, par exemple) sont des …

Una de las muchas paradojas que proporciona la investigación gramatical radica en la
reconocida dificultad que conlleva analizar las frases nominales más breves. En la presente …

Controversies and puzzles concerning possible inversion around the copula in English
copula might be illuminated by comparison with some aspects of the behavior of Russian …