Cartography and Explanatory Adequacy

Ángel J. Gallego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and their Applications (IALaA). He works in the areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, with a focus on what syntactic phenomena such as locality, phase structure, and transformations can reveal about the Language Faculty. He is the author of The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects (OUP, 2019) and co-editor, with Roberta D'Alessandro and Irene Franco, of The Verbal Domain (OUP, 2017).Dennis Ott is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, having previously held positions at the University of Groningen, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of the Basque Country. His research explores the formal principles underlying the syntax of natural languages, and how the mental grammar encoding these principles interfaces with systems of interpretation and articulation. He is the co-editor, with Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, of Parameters of Predicate Fronting (OUP, 2021).

• 1: Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott: Introduction2: Julia Bacskai-Atkari: Complementizers, word order, and a non-cartographic approach to the CP domain3: Ignacio Bosque: A quasi-cartographic approach to Spanish auxiliaries4: Guglielmo Cinque: Externalization and meaningless movement5: Thomas Ernst: Semantic principles of adverbial distribution6: Ricardo Etxepare: Wh-distributives in Basque7: Aritz Irurtzun: The syntactic nature of focus8: Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal: Focus structure and assertion in relative clauses: Evidence from Spanish9: Luigi Rizzi: On the status of criterial markers in the left periphery of the clause10: Vieri Samek-Lodovici: Focalization in-situ vs focus projection: Focused topics, focused questions, focused heads, and other challenges11: Volker Struckmeier: Cartographic 'explanations' need explanations themselves: Relations to the rescue