Current studies in Spanish linguistics / edited by Héctor Campos and Fernando Martínez-Gil.

Other author Campos, Héctor.
Other author Martínez-Gil, Fernando.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©1991.
Descriptionxvi, 635 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The cognitive revolution and the study of language : looking back to see ahead / Carlos Otero -- Non-native language acquisition from a principles and parameters perspective / Judith Strozer -- Silent objects and subjects in Spanish / Hector Campos -- On resumptive pronouns / Heles Contreras -- Temporal and aspectual constraints on predicative APs / Violeta Demonte -- On the characterization of a class of ditransitive verbs in Spanish / Paula Kempchinsky -- Clitic and NP climbing in Old Spanish / Maria-Luisa Rivero -- Indirect questions and the structure of CP : some consequences / Margarita Suñer -- The Tobbler-Mussafia law in Old Spanish / Dieter Wanner -- Perfective 'haber' and the theory of tenses / Karen Zagona -- The alternating dipthongs in Spanish : a paradox revisited / Maria Carreira -- With respect to accentual constituents in Spanish / James W. Harris -- On Spanish syllabification / Jose Ignacio Hualde.
Contents The insert/delete parameter, redundancy rules, and neutralization processes in Spanish / Fernando Martinez-Gil -- Headship assignment resolution in Spanish compounds / Rafael A. Nuñez Cedeño -- Stress and syllables in Spanish / Iggy Roca.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 91025304
ISBN0878402349