Aquest treball descriu una metodologia per classificar els verbs en català segons el seu comportament sintàctic. L’objectiu és adquirir un nombre reduït de classes bàsiques amb una precisió alta fent servir pocs recursos. ...

The literature on Romance null-subject languages has often postulated a division of labor between Null and Overt pronouns: Nulls prefer to retrieve an antecedent in subject position, whereas Overts prefer an antecedent in ...

Three experimental studies are presented testing the choice of a left or a right dislocation in Catalan, depending on the bridging relation between the dislocate and its antecedent. We make the hypothesis that the stronger ...

Aquest article presenta una anàlisi semàntica formal de la interjecció ‘Déu n’hi do’ (DND, d’ara endavant) i de com interactua amb frases exclamatives. L’anàlisi de DND és la següent: (1) té un significat lèxic d’afebliment ...

Overt subject pronouns in Romance null subject languages are mandatory in order to express contrast, while null subject pronouns are generally prohibited in these contexts. However, most of the literature remains vague of ...

This paper is concerned with a conditional construction in Spanish, which we call echoic contrastive conditional, ECC for short. In ECCs, the consequent is entailed, the antecedent echoes the content of a previous ...

Cancelability is one of the main tests to identify conversational implicature in general, and scalar implicatures in particular. Despite this fact, cancelability itself is a phenomenon rarely looked at. This paper presents ...

This paper investigates the variation between null and overt subject pronouns in Catalan, a null subject language. We account for this variation in game-theoretical terms: that is, we analyze the distribution of both overt ...

This paper investigates the referring preferences of null subject pronouns and overt subject pronouns in Catalan. In particular, it contributes the debate about whether the referring preferences of pronouns in null-subject ...

While our understanding has grown of the discourse role of rightdislocation (RD), there exists a class of RD (continuing RD) that have proven impervious to any principled analysis, for the role of the dislocate is (apparently) ...