Functional Approaches to Spanish Syntax

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • J. Clancy Clements, Jiyoung Yoon

   Pages 1-6

3. Semantic and Discourse-Pragmatic Factors in Spanish Word Order

   • Belén López Meirama

   Pages 7-52

4. Continuity and Episodic Structure in Spanish Subject Reference

   • Llorenç Comajoan

   Pages 53-79

5. Gustar-Type Verbs

   • Victoria Vázquez Rozas

   Pages 80-114

6. Primary and Secondary Object Marking in Spanish

   • J. Clancy Clements

   Pages 115-133

7. Null Direct Objects in Spanish

   • J. Clancy Clements

   Pages 134-150

8. Transitivity and the Syntax of Inalienable Possession in Spanish

   • Richard Winters

   Pages 151-160

9. Ser-estar in the Predicate Adjective Construction

   • J. Clancy Clements

   Pages 161-202

10. Spanish Adjective Position: Differences between Written and Spoken Discourse

    • Richard J. File-Muriel

    Pages 203-218

11. Adjective Placement and Noun Semantics in Spanish

    • Mariche García-Bayonas

    Pages 219-235

12. Transitivity and Spanish Non-Anaphoric se

    • J. Clancy Clements

    Pages 236-264

13. ‘Juan salió contento’: Semantic Constraints on Small Clauses in Adjunct Position

    • Jiyoung Yoon

    Pages 265-277

14. Causative hacer and dejar

    • Carmen Ruiz-Sánchez

    Pages 278-299

15. Back Matter

    Pages 301-305

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The first usage-based approach of its kind, this volume contains twelve studies on key issues in Spanish syntax: word order, arguments, grammatical-relation marking, inalienable possession, ser and estar , adjective placement, small clauses and causatives. The studies are approached within a broad functionalist perspective. The studies strengthen the view that components of grammar intricately interact and that a usage-based approach to analyzing them offers new and insightful perspectives on some stubborn problems.

• adjective
• grammar
• Index
• object
• semantics
• Spanish
• subject
• Syntax

• Indiana University, USA

  J. Clancy Clements

• University of North Texas, USA

  Jiyoung Yoon

LLORENÇ COMAJOAN is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Middlebury College, USA RICHARD J. FILE-MURIEL is in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA MARICHE EUGENIA GARCÍA-BAYONAS is Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA BELÉN LÓPEZ MEIRAMA is a Professor of Spanish, Universidad de Santiago, Galicia, Spain CARMEN RUIZ-SÁNCHEZ is in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA VICTORIA VÁZQUEZ ROZAS is a Professor in the Department of Spanish, Universidad de Santiago, Galicia, Spain RICHARD WINTERS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisiana, La Fayette, USA

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