Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond Structure, Context and Development

The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilingualism. Taken together, these studies adopt a variety of methodological techniques—ranging from grammaticality judgments to corpus-based analysis to experimental approaches—to offer rich insights into different aspects of Ibero-Romance grammar. The volume consists of three parts, organized in accordance with the topics treated in the chapters they comprise.Part I focuses on structural patterns,Part II analyzes pragmatic ones, andPart III investigates the acquisition of linguistic aspects found in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers. The authors address these issues by relying on empirically rooted linguistic approaches to data collection, which are coupled with current theoretical assumptions on the nature of sentence structure, discourse dynamics and language acquisition. The volume will be of interest to anyone researching or studying Hispanic and Ibero-Romance linguistics.

Table of Contents Introduction Part I – Syntactic patterns Chapter 1. Argument and adjunct coordination in Spanish by Michael Wilson and Rong Yin Chapter 2. The interaction of parasitic gaps and adjunct control in Spanish by Katie VanDyne Chapter 3. "¿Qué traes güey?": An analysis of Spanish clausal possession by Christian Ruvalcaba Chapter 4. Invariable qué-questions (IQQs) in Spanish by Javier Fernández Sánchez and Alfredo García Pardo Chapter 5. Verbless DP interrogative constructions and enclisis in Galician by Brian M. Gravely, Jr. and Timothy M. Gupton Chapter 6. Leísmo: One le or two? by Adolfo Ausín and Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera Part II - Pragmatic patterns Chapter 7. What’s courteous about leísmo? by Adolfo Ausín Chapter 8. Verbless exclamatives in Spanish beyond the syntax-semantics interface: a pragmatic account by Melvin González Rivera Chapter 9. The meaning of y tó: conventional implicatures in Puerto Rican Spanish by Nieves Rivera Chapter 10. Exploring extended focus and meaning in Chilean Spanish intonational plateau contours by Brandon M.A. Rogers, Rajiv Rao and Matthew Burner Chapter 11. The intonation of yes-no questions in Basque Spanish by Carolina González and Lara Reglero Part III - Acquisition patterns Chapter 12. How preschoolers acquire the null-overt contrast in Mexican Spanish: evidence from production by Hannah Forsythe, Dan Greeson and Cristina Schmitt Chapter 13. Acquisition of null subjects by heritage children and child L2 learners by Michele Goldin Chapter 14. Demonstratives in Spanish: children’s developing conceptualization of interactive space by Naomi L. Shin and Jill P. Morford Chapter 15. The production of ser and estar in Catalan/Spanish bilingual children by Alejandro Cuzaand Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Chapter 16. Frequency and semantic prototypicality in L2 Spanish learners’ dative constructions by David Abugaber Index

Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana is Instructor of Linguistics and Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Louisiana State University, USA. Sandro Sessarego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.