Table Of ContentInterface-Driven Phenomena
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Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish: Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-
Rexach brings together a collection of articles from leading experts in the fields of
formal syntax and semantics.
With a specific focus on interface-related phenomena, the articles address a
broad array of issues in Spanish grammar. In so doing, the book offers an updated
view on current research topics while providing a rich variety of methods and
theoretical perspectives.
The volume will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and scholars
working on Spanish syntax, semantics and their interfaces.
Melvin González-Rivera is Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at
the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
Sandro Sessarego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin.
Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Series Editor: Dale A. Koike
University of Texas at Austin
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Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
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Interface-Driven Phenomena
in Spanish
Essays in Honor of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Edited by Melvin González-Rivera
and Sandro Sessarego
Series Editor: Dale A. Koike
Spanish List Advisor: Javier Muñoz-Basols
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Names: Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier, honoree. | González-Rivera, Melvin,
editor. | Sessarego, Sandro, editor.
Title: Interface-driven phenomena in Spanish : essays in honor of Javier
Gutiérrez-Rexach / edited by Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro
Sessarego.
Description: 1. | New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge studies
in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019046014 (print) | LCCN 2019046015 (ebook) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Spanish language—Syntax. | Spanish
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In the following pages we honor the memory of Professor
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, a loveable friend and colleague,
who was so important to us in many ways.
Contents
Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach ix
List of contributors x
The syntax–semantics interface: current issues in the field 1
SANDRO SESSAREGO AND MELVIN GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA
1 On the syntax of Spanish unconditionals 6
IGNACIO BOSQUE
2 On the meaning of complementizers: a proposal based
on Spanish exclamative sentences 30
CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ
3 Case and the computation of nominal reference 51
MARTA LUJÁN
4 Substantivized embedded interrogative and exclamative
finite wh-clauses in Spanish 85
MANUEL DELICADO CANTERO
5 Conflation of artistic practices and verbal features
in Pablo Picasso 111
ENRIQUE MALLÉN
6 Scoping in degree exclamative sentences 131
XAVIER VILLALBA
7 Variability in syntactic-semantic cycles: evidence from
auxiliary chains 145
DIEGO GABRIEL KRIVOCHEN AND LUIS GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ
viii Contents
8 On the grammar of Spanish qualitative binominal noun phrases 169
MELVIN GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA
9 Contact-driven restructuring at the interface: aspects of
variable phi-agreement across the Afro-Hispanic DP 192
SANDRO SESSAREGO
Index 221
Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach was a leading scholar in the field of Hispanic
linguistics, who had a solid foundation in syntax and semantics, coupled with a
keen eye for data. He published a variety of articles, books and edited volumes on
Spanish syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language and the arts. Some
of his works are fundamental readings in Hispanic linguistics, since they offer an
introductory reference view for students and researchers in the field. Among these
studies, it is worth pointing out Semantics: Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2003),
Fundamentos de Sintaxis Formal [Foundations of Formal Syntax] (Akal, 2009,
coauthored with Ignacio Bosque) and Enciclopedia de Lingüística Hispánica
[Encyclopedia of Hispanic Linguistics] (Routledge, 2016). Other works of equal
significance, which are more specialized in nature and, consequently, directed to
a narrower public, are From Words to Discourse (Elsevier, 2002), La semántica
de los indefinidos [The Semantics of Indefinites] (Visor, 2004) and Interfaces and
Domains of Quantification (The Ohio State University Press, 2014).
Professor Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach’s research on Spanish linguistics ranged
over a variety of topics, such as exclamative and interrogative sentences, clitics,
quantification, bare nouns, nominal and verbal ellipses and agreement, to mention
just a few. His work was characterized by a combination of originality and preci-
sion; some of it was of a remarkably pioneering nature and most likely cannot
be fully appreciated until time lends perspective. He will be truly missed by his
students, colleagues and friends.
