English/Spanish relatives and their relative information structure: A view from language contact in Puerto Rico

ÁL Jiménez-Fernández - Catalan journal of linguistics, 2023 - revistes.uab.cat
The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) such as
Negative Preposing (NPr) in four types of relative clauses, namely definite restrictive …

Stress and final/n/deletion in Catalan: Combining Strict CV and OT

N Faust, F Torres-Tamarit - Glossa: a journal of general …, 2017 - glossa-journal.org
In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

How Much Room for Discourse in Imperative? The Lens of Interface on English, Italian and Spanish*

M Frascarelli, ÁL Jiménez‐Fernández - Studia Linguistica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses root phenomena in imperative clauses, assuming as diagnostics
conversational dynamics and the type of discourse categories that are admitted in their C …

Licensing null arguments in recipes across languages

I Paul, D Massam - Journal of Linguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
While much of the literature on recipe contexts has focused on English and the availability of
null definite patients, this paper shows that both null agents and null patients are possible in …

To move or not to move: Is focus on the edge?

ÁL Jiménez-Fernández - Journal of Linguistics, 2024 - cambridge.org
A discourse-syntax interface-based approach to three types of focus–Information Focus,
Corrective or Contrastive Focus, and Mirative Focus–is discussed in this paper. In my …

Linguistic prominence as a continuum: Prominence typology revisited on grounds of feature inheritance

J Yang - Topics in Linguistics, 2024 - topling.ukf.sk
Taking as a starting point the discrepancy in the classification of Mandarin Chinese in
different prominence typologies, the present paper deals with the nature of linguistic …

[PDF][PDF] A feature-inheritance approach to scalar-focus object preposing in English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish

J Yang - Complutense Journal of English Studies, 2024 - revistas.ucm.es
ENG Abstract: This paper discusses the syntax of scalar-focus object preposing, which is
found compatible with constituent-adverbs but not with adverbs with a sentential scope …

Discourse‐Feature‐Driven Movement in Spanish and the Revised PGU

J Yang - Studia Linguistica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims to reconsider the purpose of movement and its Last‐Resort nature. In
conformity with Chomsky (2008) and Jiménez‐Fernández (2020), the apparent optional …

Spanish preverbal subjects and the cartography of the Spanish left periphery

J Martín - Lingua, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, after reviewing arguments for and against a preverbal dedicated subject
position in Spanish, I conclude that the only asymmetry among preverbal arguments is …

Estructura informativa y orden de palabras en las cláusulas de relativo restrictivas

A Ojea - Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía, 2023 - revistas.usc.gal
Este trabajo analiza la estructura de constituyentes de las cláusulas de relativo restrictivas
para explicar por qué en español, frente a lo que ocurre en otras lenguas como el inglés, el …