Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I - Syntactic patterns

Chapter 1. Argument and adjunct coordination in Spanish

by Michael Wilson and Rong Yin

Chapter 2. The interaction of parasitic gaps and adjunct control in Spanish

by Katie VanDyne

Chapter 3. "?Que traes gueey?": An analysis of Spanish clausal possession

by Christian Ruvalcaba

Chapter 4. Invariable que-questions (IQQs) in Spanish

by Javier Fernandez Sanchez and Alfredo Garcia Pardo

Chapter 5. Verbless DP interrogative constructions and enclisis in Galician

by Brian M. Gravely, Jr. and Timothy M. Gupton

Chapter 6. Leismo: One le or two?

by Adolfo Ausin and Francisco J. Fernandez-Rubiera

Part II - Pragmatic patterns

Chapter 7. What's courteous about leismo?

by Adolfo Ausin

Chapter 8. Verbless exclamatives in Spanish beyond the syntax-semantics interface: a pragmatic account

by Melvin Gonzalez Rivera

Chapter 9. The meaning of y to: conventional implicatures in Puerto Rican Spanish

by Nieves Rivera

Chapter 10. Exploring extended focus and meaning in Chilean Spanish intonational plateau contours

by Brandon M.A. Rogers, Rajiv Rao and Matthew Burner

Chapter 11. The intonation of yes-no questions in Basque Spanish

by Carolina Gonzalez and Lara Reglero

Part III - Acquisition patterns

Chapter 12. How preschoolers acquire the null-overt contrast in Mexican Spanish: evidence from production

by Hannah Forsythe, Dan Greeson and Cristina Schmitt

Chapter 13. Acquisition of null subjects by heritage children and child L2 learners

by Michele Goldin

Chapter 14. Demonstratives in Spanish: children's developing conceptualization of interactive space

by Naomi L. Shin and Jill P. Morford

Chapter 15. The production of ser and estar in Catalan/Spanish bilingual children

by Alejandro Cuza and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Chapter 16. Frequency and semantic prototypicality in L2 Spanish learners' dative constructions

by David Abugaber

Index