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 …

This dissertation is a study of the syntactic and semantic properties of dative arguments. The
main source of data is Spanish, where dative arguments can appear with all types of verbs …

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite
objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis López presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics …

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 …

This book is the result of investigations on different aspects of Chomsky's framework of
phases. Earlier versions of the core ideas that can be found in the following pages were …

The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a universal condition on the distribution of marked
person features in certain configurations. First thoroughly investigated by Bonet (1991), she …

Clitic doubling Page 543 14 Clitic Doubling ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU 1 Introduction 1.1
The phenomenon 1.2 Overview of the history 1.3 Organization of the discussion 2 Clitic doubling …

The effects of language transfer have been amply documented in second language (L2)
acquisition and, to a lesser extent, in the language contact/loss literature (Cook, 2003). In …

This paper gives further support for the claim that the EPP feature in T and ψ‐features
agreement/nominative Case assignment can be fulfilled by different elements. Some …

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 …