In this paper we compare dative ditransitive structures in nativized and nativizing urban
varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, using …

The possessive dative construction has been widely adopted as an unaccusativity
diagnostic (Borer and Grodzinsky 1986). Gafter (2014) casts doubt on the relevance of …

Romance clitics are currently accounted for as DP arguments moved to functional head
positions or as functional heads (AccVoice, etc.) licensing pro-DPs in argument position. I …

This paper revisits the phenomenon of inalienable possession between a dative argument
and a body-part noun in Spanish. Specifically, it looks at contexts where the inalienable …

This study investigates Spanish-speaking children's acquisition of subject and object d-
linked wh-questions with actional (1) and psychological (psych) verbs like …

The incorporation of empirical and theoretical knowledge from the language acquisition
literature into formal diachronic syntax has been largely exiguous despite the growth of the …

In this article, we argue that the term dative can correspond to objects of a very different
linguistic nature, even in typologically close languages. Specifically, in syntactic terms …

Greek and Romance have been spoken alongside of one another for centuries in southern
Italy. Even though the Greek-speaking areas have been dramatically reduced over the …

Various Catalan psychological verbs that are part of causative sentences with an accusative
experiencer (Els nens van molestar la Maria or La van molestar 'The kids annoyed Maria'or …

This paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, ie a detransitivized configuration
that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings. Although these are agentive …