The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

Ángel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, and an ICREA Acadèmia researcher. His research focuses on areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, and Romance languages.

• I. European Spanish1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian SpanishFrancisco Ordóñez and Francesc Roca2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialectsInés Fernández-Ordóñez 3. Empty Categories and CliticsJuan Romero4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperativesJulio Villa-García 5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque CountryAritz Irurtzun6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular SpanishÁngel Jiménez-Fernández and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco II. American Spanish7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsideredÁngela Di Tullio, Andrés Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski 8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian SpanishMiguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo 9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan SpanishRodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Carlos Martín Sobrino, and Melanie Uth10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview.Ignacio Bosque and José M. Brucart 11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian SpanishJosé Camacho12. Reportative que in Mexican SpanishEsthela Treviño Subject IndexLanguage Index

In conclusion, the enthusiasm with which this volume declares the intention of generative grammar to take an interest in the dialectal syntactic variation of Spanish is to be welcomed. The methods of this paradigm (minimal pairs, the ascertainment of impossible examples) are essential in the understanding of grammatical phenomena.