
Some optional rules in Spanish complementation
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- Intro
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter I. PROBLEMS OF MOOD IN SPANISH COMPLEMENTATION
- 1. Data
- 1.1. Difference of Meaning
- 1.2. Differences of Syntactic Behavior: Root Transformations
- 1.3. More Differences of Syntactic Behavior
- 2. Analyses of the Data
- 2.1. Different Underlying Structures
- 2.11. Different Matrix Verbs
- 2.12. Different Complementizers
- 2.13. Different Complement Clauses
- 2.14. Different Overall Sentential Structures
- 2.2. Identical Underlying Structures
- 2.21. Conditions on Rules
- 2.22. Rules of Complementization
- 3. Further Data
- 3.1. Unexpected Indicatives
- 3.2. Unexpected Subjunctives
- Chapter II. THE RULE OF SUBJECT-RAISING
- 1. Data
- 2. Analyses of the Data
- 2.1. The Raising Analysis
- 2.2. The Equi-NP Deletion Analysis
- 2.3. The Subjectless Infinitive Analysis
- 2.4. Chomsky's Latest Analysis
- 2.5. The Simple Clause Analysis
- 3. Arguments in favor of Subject-raising
- 3.1. Subject-raising into Object
- 3.11. Some Remarks about Equi-NP Deletion
- 3.12. The Inclusion Constraint
- 3.13. Negation of Quantifiers
- 3.14. Pronominalization Constraint
- 3.15. Pseudo-clefts
- 3.16. Speaker-oriented Adverbs
- 3.2. Subject-raising into Subject
- 3.21. Nouns without Determiner
- 3.22. Selectional Restrictions
- 3.23. Non-referential NP's
- 3.24. Haber
- 3.25. Idioms
- 3.26. Duality of Structures
- 4. The Problem of Meaning
- Chapter III. THE RULE OF NEGATIVE-RAISING
- 1. Data
- 2. Analyses of the Data
- 2.1. Syntactic Accounts
- 2.2. (Interpretive) Semantic Account
- 2.3. Lexical Account
- 3. Status of the Arguments for the Spanish Data
- 3.1. Negative Polarity Items
- 3.2. Multiple Negation
- 3.3. Pronominalization
- 3.4. A Classical Argument against Interpretivism
- 4. Meaning and the Rule of Neg-raising
- 4.1. Classes of Neg-raising Verbs
- 4.2. Unexpected Neg-raisers
- Chapter IV. OPTIONAL RULES, PRAGMATICS AND MOOD
- 1. Pragmatic Differences are also Semantic Differences
- 2. The Problem of Meaning-preservingness of Transformations
- 3. Towards Explaining the Relationship among the Optional Transformations
- 3.1. Assertion and Complementation
- 3.2. The Negation of Assertion and Indicative Mood
- 3.3. The Problem of Semi-factives
- 3.4. A Possible Solution to the Problem of Mood
- 3.5. Indicative vs. Non-Indicative
- 3.6. Resistance to Transformations
- Chapter V. EPILOGUE AND PROLOGUE
- 1. Mental Status of the Rules
- 2. Some Examples
- 2.1. Indicative vs. Subjunctive Insertion
- 2.2. Subject-raising
- 3. Towards Developing a "Recognition" Mechanism
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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