Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish

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.

• The syntax–semantics interface: current issues in the field 1.On the synax of Spanish unconditionals 2. On the meaning of complementizers: a proposal based on Spanish exclamative sentences 3. Case and the computation of nominal reference 4. Substantivized embedded interrogative and exclamative finite wh-clauses in Spanish 5. Conflation of artistic practices and verbal features in Pablo Picasso 6. Scoping in degree exclamative sentences 7. Variability in syntactic-semantic cycles: evidence from auxiliary chains 8. On the grammar of Spanish qualitative binominal noun phrases 9. Contact-driven restructuring at the interface: aspects of variable phi-agreement across the Afro-Hispanic DP