ABSTRACT

Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish: Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach brings together a collection of articles from leading experts in the fields of formal syntax and semantics.

With a specific focus on interface-related phenomena, the articles address a broad array of issues in Spanish grammar. In so doing, the book offers an updated view on current research topics while providing a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives.

The volume will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and scholars working on Spanish syntax, semantics and their interfaces.

chapter |5 pages

The syntax–semantics interface

Current issues in the field

chapter 2|21 pages

On the meaning of complementizers

A proposal based on Spanish exclamative sentences

chapter 7|24 pages

Variability in syntactic-semantic cycles

Evidence from auxiliary chains 1

chapter 9|29 pages

Contact-driven restructuring at the interface

Aspects of variable phi-agreement across the Afro-Hispanic DP