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Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish 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. Melvin González-Rivera is Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. Sandro Sessarego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series Editor: Dale A. Koike University of Texas at Austin The Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series provides a showcase for the latest research on Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics. It pub- lishes select research monographs on various topics in the field, reflecting strands of current interest. Titles in the series: Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City Towards a Synthesis of the Social Correlates of Lexical Use and Diffusion in Immigrant Contexts Rachel Varra Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact Sociolinguistic Case Studies Edited by Eva Núñez-Méndez Lusophone, Galician, and Hispanic Linguistics Bridging Frames and Traditions Edited by Gabriel Rei-Doval and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero Pragmatic Variation in Service Encounter Interactions across the Spanish-Speaking World Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and María Elena Placencia Dialects from Tropical Islands Caribbean Spanish in the United States Edited by Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez & Melvin González-Rivera Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Edited by Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego For more information about this series please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Studies-in-Hispanic-and-Lusophone-Linguistics/book-series/RSHLL Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Edited by Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego Series Editor: Dale A. Koike Spanish List Advisor: Javier Muñoz-Basols First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier, honoree. | González-Rivera, Melvin, editor. | Sessarego, Sandro, editor. Title: Interface-driven phenomena in Spanish : essays in honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach / edited by Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego. Description: 1. | New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge studies in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019046014 (print) | LCCN 2019046015 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367439811 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003006855 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Spanish language—Syntax. | Spanish language—Semantics. Classification: LCC PC4026.G88 I58 2020 (print) | LCC PC4026.G88 (ebook) | DDC 465—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046014 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046015 ISBN: 978-0-367-43981-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-00685-5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC In the following pages we honor the memory of Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, a loveable friend and colleague, who was so important to us in many ways. Contents Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach ix List of contributors x The syntax–semantics interface: current issues in the field 1 SANDRO SESSAREGO AND MELVIN GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA 1 On the syntax of Spanish unconditionals 6 IGNACIO BOSQUE 2 On the meaning of complementizers: a proposal based on Spanish exclamative sentences 30 CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ 3 Case and the computation of nominal reference 51 MARTA LUJÁN 4 Substantivized embedded interrogative and exclamative finite wh-clauses in Spanish 85 MANUEL DELICADO CANTERO 5 Conflation of artistic practices and verbal features in Pablo Picasso 111 ENRIQUE MALLÉN 6 Scoping in degree exclamative sentences 131 XAVIER VILLALBA 7 Variability in syntactic-semantic cycles: evidence from auxiliary chains 145 DIEGO GABRIEL KRIVOCHEN AND LUIS GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ viii Contents 8 On the grammar of Spanish qualitative binominal noun phrases 169 MELVIN GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA 9 Contact-driven restructuring at the interface: aspects of variable phi-agreement across the Afro-Hispanic DP 192 SANDRO SESSAREGO Index 221 Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach was a leading scholar in the field of Hispanic linguistics, who had a solid foundation in syntax and semantics, coupled with a keen eye for data. He published a variety of articles, books and edited volumes on Spanish syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language and the arts. Some of his works are fundamental readings in Hispanic linguistics, since they offer an introductory reference view for students and researchers in the field. Among these studies, it is worth pointing out Semantics: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2003), Fundamentos de Sintaxis Formal [Foundations of Formal Syntax] (Akal, 2009, coauthored with Ignacio Bosque) and Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica [Encyclopedia of Hispanic Linguistics] (Routledge, 2016). Other works of equal significance, which are more specialized in nature and, consequently, directed to a narrower public, are From Words to Discourse (Elsevier, 2002), La semántica de los indefinidos [The Semantics of Indefinites] (Visor, 2004) and Interfaces and Domains of Quantification (The Ohio State University Press, 2014). Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach’s research on Spanish linguistics ranged over a variety of topics, such as exclamative and interrogative sentences, clitics, quantification, bare nouns, nominal and verbal ellipses and agreement, to mention just a few. His work was characterized by a combination of originality and preci- sion; some of it was of a remarkably pioneering nature and most likely cannot be fully appreciated until time lends perspective. He will be truly missed by his students, colleagues and friends.
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