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                   Novedad bibliográfica:
    Cuadernos de Lingüística VII (2000) del Instituto
    Universitario Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, España)
   De: Margarita Márquez mailto:fogiuaca at accessnet.es
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         ÍNDICE Y RESUMEN (EN INGLÉS) DEL CONTENIDO

    - F. GARCÍA MURGA: “Inferencias presuposicionales
verbales: hacia una lógica conceptual” (LEHIA - Centro
Vasco para el Estudio del Lenguaje)
    ABSTRACT. This paper analyses the mechanisms underlying
the derivation of presuppositions that are triggered by
verbs. The theory of verbal lexical presuppositions held
here has two pillars: First, such a theory is part of a
general theory on linguistic presuppositions. In this
respect, it is claimed that linguistic presuppositions are
inferentially related to their presupposing sentences and
moreover, that, they show a specific epistemic status:
presuppositions are taken by the speaker as if they were
salient in the addressee’s mental state. Second, verbal
lexical presuppositions are closely tied to the lexical
entries of verbs. It is maintained here that the Lexicon is
highly internally structured. That is, general semantic
features appear all along different lexical entries. This
means that there are semantic patterns of verbal lexical
presuppositions. These patterns are defined by means of
semantic markers attached to lexical entries and rules of
inference triggered by these markers. The proposal offered
here has important consequences for the general
architecture of linguistic faculty and, in particular, for
the existence of different ‘inferential modules’.

    - J. GUTIÉRREZ-REXACH: “Tener y el efecto de definitud”
(The Ohio State University)
    ABSTRACT. In this paper, the semantic properties of the
Spanish verb tener `have' and its relationship with the
definiteness restriction are studied. Several constructions
and interpretive varieties are characterized, besides the
well-known existential-have construction: restricted
existence, the locative reading, the essential and
accidental readings, and idiomatic constructions. It is
argued that it is possible to provide a uniform semantics
for these constructions, taking as a starting point the
idea that tener denotes a function attributing essential
properties. The proposed analysis is implemented in
Generalized Quantifiers theory.

    - K. HALE & J. KEYSER: “Conflation” (MIT)
    ABSTRACT. In this paper, the nature of the process of
‘Conflation’ is examined. Conflation is the process of
fusion of syntactic nuclei in which the phonological matrix
of the head of the complement is inserted into the head
that governs it, giving rise to a single word. Based on the
study of the cognate object construction (John slept the
sleep of the just) is proposed that Conflation consists of
the copying  of the p-signature of the complement into the
defective p-signature of the head, where the p-signature of
a head must be understood as the information registered in
the label concerning the PF-interpretation of the head. It
is suggested that Conflation is concomitant with Merge, an
assumption that explains why Specifiers cannot conflate
into the head that governs them (The wind cleared the sky /
*The wind skied clear).  A closer look at the hyponymous
argument construction (John danced a jig / He shelved the
books on the windowsill) reveals that the view of
Conflation based on p-signature copying has serious flaws.
The conclusion is that Conflation, when it involves a
nominal argument, is the situation in which a verb, endowed
with certain semantic features, imposes selectional
constraints on its complement.  To end up, a comparison is
established between Incorporation and Conflation.

    - E. LÓPEZ-DÍAZ: “Syntactic Structure and Reflexive
Interpretation in Spanish and in Quechua” (U. Autónoma De
Madrid - I. U. Ortega Y Gasset)
    ABSTRACT. In this paper, we investigate the relation
between syntax and semantic structure concerning the
reflexives in Spanish and in Quechua. The similarity of
syntactic word order in Spanish and order of morphemes in
Quechua is shown. We will explore reflexives in both
languages in the light of the core relation of c-command
and the associated operations of quantifier raising and
reconstruction. Quechua words are considered to have a
syntactic origin and a post-syntactic (morpho)phonological
component adds some transformations to the syntactic
input.

    - H. LÓPEZ PALMA: “La individualización de los
procesos” (Universidad de La Coruña/ UMass At Amherst)
    ABSTRACT.  In this paper we are going to explore some
properties of the "part-of' relation formalizad by Link
(1983, 1998) as a join semilattice that has been applied to
the calculus of the aspect of eventualities.  In
particular, we will focus on the problem of individuating
processes. First we will review some applications of this
algebraic structure. Then we will atempt one of the
possible solutions to the problem of the minimal unit, and
in so doing we will study the semantics of unit-excerpting
constructions of the type dar un paseo ("take a walk").

    - L. MARTÍ: “Multiple Spell Out to LF” (U. of
Connecticut, Storrs)
    ABSTRACT. In the model of the grammar put forth in
Uriagereka (1999a, b), the operation of Spell Out is not
restricted to apply just once, but can apply more times,
just as all other operations of the computational system.
This means that the syntactic component interfaces with LF
and PF more than once. In this paper, Uriagereka’s system
is extended, following also ideas in Epstein, Groat,
Kawashima and Kitahara (1998) (henceforth, Epstein et al.),
so that the LF interface becomes ‘invasive’ to the syntax:
principles and rules of LF will apply to every partially
spelled out chunk of structure. This extension is supported
by the empirical facts traditionally grouped under
wh-movement. Thus, I argue that the argument-adjunct
asymmetry found in wh-movement (Huang 1982, Chomsky 1986,
Chomsky 1993, 1995, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, Rizzi 1990,
among others) can be derived in the Multiple Spell Out
(MSO) system of Uriagereka, which allows us to do away with
the Minimal Link Condition (MLC)/Closest Attract (CA) at
least in the realm of wh-movement. Drawing on work by Zwart
(1996) and Vuki? (1998, 1999), other cases ascribed to the
MLC/CA, like superraising and the Head Movement Constraint
(HMC) of Travis (1984), can also be explained away, which
means that the MLC/CA is highly redundant.

    - A. MENDIKOETXEA: “Relaciones de interficie: los
verbos de cambio de estado” (Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid)
    ABSTRACT. The purpose of this work is to provide an
explicit analysis of the lexical and syntactic properties
of predicates of change of state within the framework of a
lexicon-syntax interface model based on the hypothesis that
lexical structures and syntactic structures are
(quasi-)isomorfic.  Externally-caused verbs like romperse
(‘to break’), in El cristal se rompió (‘The glass broke.’)
are analysed as reflexive predicates, which are bi-eventive
and dyadic, and with PRO as their external argument.
Internally-caused verbs like estallar ‘to shatter’, in El
cristal estalló (‘The glass shattered.’), are unaccusative
predicates, which are mono-eventive and monadic, and whose
only argument is an internal argument.  The general
implications of this analysis for verb structures are also
discussed.

    - N. MORENO QUIBÉN & J. ROMERO MORALES: “On the Syntax
of Locatio and Locatum Verbs” (IUOG – U. de Alcalá)
    ABSTRACT. Two problems have been recently raised
against Hale and Keyser’s syntactic approach to complex
word formation. The first one concerns the notion of
canonicity of meaning of lexical items. Complex words often
have meanings that are not easily derivable from the
building blocks that compose them. It is often argued that
in order to give a satisfactory account of the canonicity
of meaning, a level of representation of conceptual
knowledge not couched in the vocabulary of syntax is
needed. We reject this claim by showing how canonicity of
meaning may arise in the course of syntactic derivations.
Secondly, it has been a principal axiom of the lexicalist
hypothesis that words are atoms, not internally visible for
syntactic operations such as determination of scope. We
argue that this observation is not an argument against a
syntactic approach to word formation by showing how
syntactic computations can make derivations invisible for
determination of scope. Finally, a slightly modification of
Hale and Keyser’s approach allows us to give a satisfactory
account of the lexical restriction known as the possession
restriction found in double object constructions  and
locatum verbs.

    - C. PÉREZ SANZ: “Estudio optimista de algunos datos de
patología fonológica” (IUOG)
    ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to establish
the rank of constraints that makes possible the phonology
of a child with language pathology, and whose production is
incorrect, according to non pathological grammar. I will
stress syllabification, since the most consistent
phenomena, those that are more frequently and more
coherently shown, affect syllable structure.

- N. SÁNCHEZ LEFEBVRE: “French Pure Expletive Constructions
and Move-F” (Universidad Autónoma De Madrid/IUOG)
    ABSTRACT. In this paper, it is argued that in pure
expletive constructions, the EPP is satisfied optimally by
movement of the formal features of the Associate to T.
These formal features receive a phonological matrix in the
morphological component. The chain thus formed is
interpreted as a canonical feature-chain. This analysis
predicts that there can be only one expletive per
Associate. Under this view, expletive constructions are the
result of the basic operations Merge and Attract of the
Computational System and we can dispense entirely with
mechanisms that eliminate the pure expletive at LF.

    - M. SUÑER: “Bare que in Relative Clauses” (Cornell
University)
    ABSTRACT.  This paper focuses on two of the functions
that bare que (one not preceded by a preposition or
preposition look-alike) may perform: as a complementizer
and as a so-called relative pronoun.  My airn is to find a
satisfactory answer to two questions: (A) Is bare que
ambiguous? and (B) Is prepositionless el que ambiguous?  We
will show, after having theoretically evaluated both the
'Unique que hypothesis' and the 'Bare que hypothesis' that
the latter correctly accounts for the Spanish facts.

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