The syntax of Spanish / Karen Zagona.
Clear and well-organised, this textbook is an introduction to Spanish syntax, which assumes no prior knowledge of current theory. Beginning with a descriptive overview of the major characteristics of the grammar, it goes on to describe facts about Spanish, such as its word order, notions of 'su...
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview of the grammar
- General characteristics of the syntax
- The subject constituent
- The predicate constituent
- Main clauses
- Subordinate clauses
- Syntactic dialects
- The Noun Phrase
- The distribution of argument NPs
- Predicative NPs
- The constituents of NP
- Determiners of argument NPs
- Pre- and post-determiners
- Specifiers of predicative NPs
- Constituent order within NP
- The Verb Phrase
- The distribution of VP
- The external argument of VP
- Complements of V: prepositional complements vs. adjuncts
- Complements: direct object DPs
- Indirect objects
- Complements of "unaccusative" verbs
- VP-related functional categories
- VP-adverbs and the verb/tense relation
- Auxiliary verbs, tense and aspect
- Clitics
- Negation
- Subjects, topics, and declarative constituent order
- The problem of "free" subject order
- Discourse roles: Focus and Topic
- [Topic] movement to the specifier of IP
- Dislocated Topics
- Subject order and the NS parameter
- A'-movement and X movement through COMP
- Wh-movement
- (Contrastive) Focus
- Other A'-movements
- Head movement to (and through) COMP.