Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras
Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.
Karen Zagona
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen Zagona plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995
Edited by Karen Zagona
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 133] 1996. vi, 330 pp.
Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017 Spanish participial adjectives and individual-level/stage-level interpretations in nominals Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 277–304 | Chapter
This article addresses the well-known restriction on stage-level readings of pre-nominal predicative adjectives in Spanish. We argue that this restriction is due to a structural difference between ‘direct modifiers’ and ‘indirect modifiers’ as has been previously proposed in the literature (Demonte… read more
2015 Location and the estar/ser alternation New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 147–172 | Article
This article is concerned with the syntactic factors that underlie the Spanish ser
‘BESER’/estar ‘BEESTAR’ alternation. In line with recent studies which have argued
that a prepositional feature is crucial to the alternation, it is argued here following
Zagona (2012) that a syntactic process of… read more
2007 ‘Adjunct theta-roles’ and the configurational determination of roles Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 396–411 | Article
In this paper, I discuss “quasi-argument” thematic roles (Instrument, Benefactive and certain Locations), and argue on the basis of their reconstruction properties and their dependence on event-related features that we should analyze them as generated in the event-related functional projections for… read more
2007 On the syntactic features of epistemic and root modals Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface, Eguren, Luis and Olga Fernández-Soriano (eds.), pp. 221–236 | Article
1999 Structural Case and Tense Construal Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998, Authier, Jean-Marc, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed (eds.), pp. 305 ff. | Article
1999 Voice and Aspect Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli, Franco, Jon A., Alazne Landa and Juan Martín (eds.), pp. 279 ff. | Article
1992 Tense-binding and construal of present tense Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIX, Ohio State University, April 21–23, 1989, Laeufer, Christiane and Terrell A. Morgan (eds.), pp. 385 ff. | Article
1992 Tense, V-Movement, and Wh-in-situ Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from the XX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Ottawa, April 10–14, 1990, Hirschbühler, Paul and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 389 ff. | Article
1989 On the non-identity of morphological tense and temporal interpretation Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Kirschner, Carl and Janet Ann DeCesaris (eds.), pp. 479–494 | Article