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View article: Spanish Negative Concord Items: Experimental Evidence for Their Status as Strict Negative Polarity Items
Spanish Negative Concord Items: Experimental Evidence for Their Status as Strict Negative Polarity Items Open
This study investigates the semantic status of Spanish Negative Concord Items (NCIs) through their comparison with English Negative Quantifiers (NQs) and Polarity Items (PIs) in acceptability judgment tasks conducted among native speakers …
View article: The Construal of Experience Through Transitivity in Student Academic Writing Across Humanistic Disciplines: A Systemic Functional Analysis
The Construal of Experience Through Transitivity in Student Academic Writing Across Humanistic Disciplines: A Systemic Functional Analysis Open
This paper presents the results of a study focused on the analysis of student texts in three disciplines from the humanities. The aim of the study was to determine, from a systemic functional standpoint and through a transitivity analysis …
View article: Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers
Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers Open
Processing research on Spanish gender agreement has focused on L2 learners’ and—to a lesser extent—heritage speakers’ sensitivity to gender agreement violations. This research has been mostly carried out in the written modality, which plac…
View article: A Minimalist Analysis of Negative Concord in Northern Peninsular Spanish
A Minimalist Analysis of Negative Concord in Northern Peninsular Spanish Open
This dissertation proposes new solutions to three current and longstanding problems on the phenomenon of Negative Concord in Spanish: (i) the status of Spanish n-words; (ii) the behavior of Spanish n-words in preverbal position; and (iii) …