Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Creator "Campos, Héctor"
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THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF GENDER AND WORD CLASS IN SPANISH: EVIDENCE FROM -(C)ITO/A DIMINUTIVES
(Georgetown University, 2017)Since the inception of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993), there have been two notable, but preliminary, analyses of Spanish gender and word class within this framework: Harris (1999) and Kramer (2015). This ... -
The Role of Discourse Context and Verb Class in Native and Non-Native Spanish Postverbal Subjects
(Georgetown University, 2016)Recent research on the second language (L2) acquisition of postverbal subjects in Spanish has focused on the important role of discourse context in licensing postverbal subjects with unaccusative and unergative verbs ... -
The Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals
(Georgetown University, 2019)The feature of ‘gender’ has been a popular topic in recent years due to a general interest in phi-features, agreement and concord, and noun categorization (Mathieu et al., 2018). Nevertheless, how interpretable gender is ... -
Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2011)The unaccusativity hypothesis (Burzio 1986; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995; Perlmutter 1978) posits that intransitive verbs may be divided into two broad classes: unaccusatives, whose sole argument is an internal argument ...
