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Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today 239 Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano Elena Castroviejo Isabel Pérez-Jiménez John Benjamins Publishing Company Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) issn 0166-0829 Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Studies in LA confront empirical and theoretical problems as these are currently discussed in syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and systematic pragmatics with the aim to establish robust empirical generalizations within a universalistic perspective. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/la Founding Editor Werner Abraham Universität Wien / Ludwig Maximilian Universität München General Editors Werner Abraham Elly van Gelderen Universität Wien / Arizona State University Ludwig Maximilian Universität München Advisory Editorial Board Josef Bayer Hubert Haider Ian Roberts University of Konstanz University of Salzburg Cambridge University Cedric Boeckx Terje Lohndal Lisa deMena Travis ICREA/UB Norwegian University of Science McGill University and Technology Guglielmo Cinque Sten Vikner University of Venice Christer Platzack University of Aarhus University of Lund Liliane Haegeman C. Jan-Wouter Zwart University of Ghent University of Groningen Volume 239 Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces. Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Elena Castroviejo Ikerbasque and UPV/EHU Isabel Pérez-Jiménez Universidad de Alcalá John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/la.239 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2017009747 (print) / 2017024591 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 5722 2 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6572 2 (e-book) © 2017 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Introduction. Boundaries, phases and interfaces 1 Elena Castroviejo, Olga Fernández-Soriano & Isabel Pérez-Jiménez Section 1. (Morpho)phonology-Syntax interface Syntacticizing blends: The case of English wh-raising 27 Lieven Danckaert & Liliane Haegeman Does the verb raise to T in Spanish? 47 José Camacho & Liliana Sánchez Locative DPs and deictic adverbs/pronouns in subject position in Brazilian Portuguese 63 Eloisa Silva Nascimento Pilati, Rozana Reigota Naves & Heloisa Maria M. Lima-Salles A note on the syntax of possession in Paraguayan Guaraní 85 Maria Luisa Zubizarreta & Roumyana Pancheva Section 2. Syntax-Semantics interface Adverbial elatives in Caribbean Spanish 107 Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach & Melvin González-Rivera On weak definites and their contribution to event kinds 129 M.Teresa Espinal & Sonia Cyrino The grammaticalization of ‘big’ situations: The IMPF operator and perfective imperfects in Bulgarian 151 María Luisa Rivero, Ana Arregui & Nikolay Slavkov On the scalar properties and telicity of degree achievements 173 Louise McNally Section 3. Syntax-Discourse interface Multiple Wh-Movement in European Spanish: Exploring the role of interface conditions for variation 195 Ángel J. Gallego Table of contents Subextraction at the discourse-grammar interface: A featural approach to island effects 223 Mara Frascarelli & Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández On the de se reading in the de se center shift in Korean: An account based on logophoric binding 255 Semoon Hoe & Dongsik Lim Section 4. Lexicon-Syntax interface Spanish participial adjectives and individual-level/stage-level interpretations in nominals 279 Karen Zagona & Heles Contreras Two types of transitive verbs in Spanish: Ditransitives in disguise 305 Héctor Fernández-Alcalde Grammatical categories at the Lexicon-Syntax-Semantics interface: The case of prepositions 325 Juan Romeu State and change of state in Latin: A view from the Lexicon-Syntax interface 343 Jaume Mateu Index 367 Preface In May of 2014, we celebrated the 24th Colloquium on Generative Grammar in the city that first hosted it, Madrid. This nowadays well known conference was first con- ceived of by Violeta Demonte, who thought, back in the 1990s, that Spain had to foster research in the domain of theoretical linguistics as other countries had done. In that month of May of 2014, many friends and colleagues got together again to homage Vio- leta by presenting their cutting-edge work and discussing it with her. This volume is a selection of the revised versions of the papers presented at the CGG and the workshop on interfaces that followed it. In a hypothetical word cloud of Violeta Demonte’s past and current life experi- ence, nouns like innovation, science, creativity and public service would stand out at least as much as other bundles of concepts such as formal linguistics and generative grammar, or such as teacher, mentor and friend. Then, of course, we would be miss- ing her adjective cloud, with items such as strong, intelligent, perceptive, passionate, persistent, proactive… Violeta has made a life of building groups from scratch and leading them with the sole criterion of excellence; she has learned, brought and imple- mented the most novel and revolutionary ideas; she has shared her knowledge with the community and brought up several generations of linguists; she has given life oppor- tunities to many young researchers, and she has taught us enthusiasm for pursuing explanatory, rigorous and accurate analyses. Along years of productive work in theoretical linguistics, Violeta Demonte has led many research projects and her work has touched upon and deepened many cen- tral themes in linguistic theory, from (Extended) Standard Theory to Minimalism. Chronologically, her first research works were on sentential boundaries, in particu- lar subordination, and this is precisely the topic underlying her latest publications: embedded clauses, sentence left periphery and the status of stratified CP. Boundaries and barriers within DP’s (and AP’s) have also been among the topics covered by her work. In between, interfaces have been at the heart of her research. She has contrib- uted to our understanding of the nature of the Lexicon-Syntax-Semantics interface and has elaborated penetrating inquiries into particular empirical issues such as verb types, lexical alternations, the nature of datives, event structure or telicity (through the study of phenomena such as passives, the ser/estar distinction or prepositional verbs). She has also crucially contributed to the study of adjectives (classes, order- ing, features…) and secondary predicates. Her work on infinitives and variation on agreement in different constructions (coordinate NPs, partitive structures) concerns the Syntax-Morphology interface, and the Syntax-Pragmatics interface studies have Preface benefited from her work on Evidentiality and sentence structure. Also, the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española, which she co-directed with I. Bosque, is probably the most important contribution to the descriptive study of Spanish. But Violeta Demonte’s importance in the field goes further: We should highlight the organization of the PhD Program in Linguistics of the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset, which brought to Madrid the most prestigious names of international linguistics to teach the new generations of researchers. Moreover, she has fostered scientific research by teaching all of us to avoid hasty conclusions and side- stepping of problems, to handle hectic and frantic periods and concentrate on rigorous work… in sum, to strive for excellence. We have learned to endorse her respect for a job well done, and we will live by this teaching ever after. The impact she has had in our lives and careers cannot be mapped into the brief preface of a book on phases and interfaces (here, we refer the interested reader to <http://palabrasparavioleta.weebly.com/palabras.html>). However, we have attempted to provide a context for the publication of this thematic volume, which was born, grew and was completed out of many people’s affection and admiration towards Violeta. Introduction Boundaries, phases and interfaces Elena Castroviejo, Olga Fernández-Soriano & Isabel Pérez-Jiménez Ikerbasque and UPV/EHU / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Universidad de Alcalá 1. Boundaries: cycles and phases The notion of boundary is central in linguistic theory. In this book we approach this concept through two other relevant implementations, namely the idea of phase and the idea of interface. In both cases, we will be dealing with cross-roads between different linguistic domains. The notion of phase will be more specific to syntactic derivation, and that of interface will be more broadly understood as the meeting point of Syntax and the rest of linguistic modules that are able to receive formal treatment. Let us start with the first notion in point. 1.1 Phases and grammatical theory The concepts underlying phase-theoretic ideas have played a significant role in linguis- tic theory in the various forms it has taken. In fact, Phase Theory is nowadays one of the central debated issues within the current framework of theoretical linguistics. The spirit and motivations underlying the concept of phase can be traced back to the idea of cyclicity, “in essence, the intuition that the properties of larger linguistic units depend on the properties of their parts” (Chomsky 2012: 1), which was first proposed for pho- nology. In particular, as Chomsky (2013: 41) states, “the concept [of cycle] perhaps received its first clear formulation and application in a 1956 paper on stress contours (Chomsky et al. 1956)”. It was then extended to Morphology, Syntax and Semantics. The syntactic notion of cycle is closely related to the idea of boundary (first defined as bounding node in Chomsky 1977, later as barrier in Chomsky 1986). From this per- spective, the initial purpose of phases has to be understood within the general aim to keep structure to a minimum (Chomsky 2000), as well as to maximize computational efficiency and reduce complexity by restricting access to the Lexicon. It can be said that phases are the result of applying the notion of cycle to Lexical Arrays (the lexical “working space” for syntactic derivations): the computational system (CS) is designed to construct derivations from the mental lexicon to the interpretive interfaces in an doi 10.1075/la.239.01cas © 2017 John Benjamins Publishing Company
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