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Sintaxis generativa: estructura sintagmática del español
Generative syntax: phrase structure of Spanish
X-bar theory applied to Spanish VP and NP
Spanish phrase structure in minimalist grammar
Tópico y foco: sintaxis de la información
Topic and focus: information syntax
Clitic left-dislocation vs right-dislocation
Discourse-configural properties of Spanish
El sujeto nulo en español: pro-drop
Null subject in Spanish: pro-drop parameter
Parametric property: verb morphology licenses null subject
Linguistic explanation of Spanish subject dropping
Oraciones de relativo sin antecedente: el que / quien
Free relative clauses
El que llegue primero gana. Quien calla otorga.
Headless relative clauses in Spanish
Construcciones de tópico colgante y dislocación
Hanging topic and dislocation constructions
El libro
lo tengo yo. A Juan
Oraciones escindidas (cleft): ser + elemento + que
Cleft sentences: it is...that
Es él quien lo hizo. Lo que quiero es descansar.
Focus constructions with cleft structure
Concordancia especial: colectivos
cuantificadores
Special agreement: collectives
quantifiers
El orden de palabras en español: marcado vs no marcado
Word order in Spanish: marked vs unmarked
SVO unmarked; VS for new info; OVS for contrast
Pragmatic functions of word order variation
Elipsis verbal en español: zeugma y gapping
Verbal ellipsis: zeugma and gapping
Juan estudia y María trabaja (gapping of verb)
Types of ellipsis and their licensing conditions
Pasiva e impersonal: análisis comparativo
Passive and impersonal: comparative analysis
ser+participle vs se-passive vs active impersonal (uno)
Three ways to backgrounding agents in Spanish