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Neither agreement nor pronouns: Clitic doubling and Weak Crossover in Rioplatense Spanish by Saab, Andrés

“…Baker & Kramer (2018) suggests that the distribution of clitic doubling in Spanish follows from Weak Crossover. Thus, the fact that in accusative clitic…”
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A short note on honorifics and personal articles in Spanish and Catalan and its consequences for the theory of proper names by Saab, Andrés

“…Building on recent findings in Bernstein et al. (2019), regarding the syntactic distribution of personal articles in Catalan and honorifics in Spanish, I…”
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DO LINGUISTIC MEANINGS MEET LINGUISTIC FORM? by SAAB, ANDRÉS

“…Abstract In this brief note, I offer some considerations to the effect of arguing (i) that Duffley's criticism to formal semantics is based on a dogma about…”
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Deconstructing Voice. The syntax and semantics of u-syncretism in Spanish by Saab, Andrés

“…This paper focuses on a well-known pattern of systematic syncretism in Spanish se constructions. Detailed syntactic and semantic analyses are provided with the…”
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On an undocumented type of predicate ellipsis in Spanish and its consequences for the theory of ellipsis licensing by Saab, Andrés, Stigliano, Laura

“…In this paper, we introduce and discuss a type of ellipsis in Spanish, undocumented in the previous literature, which we will refer to as Predicate Phrase…”
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Slurs, Stereotypes and Insults by Orlando, Eleonora, Saab, Andrés

“…This paper is about paradigmatic slurs, i.e. expressions that are prima facie associated with the expression of a contemptuous attitude concerning a group of…”
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A Note on Someone (Else): An Island Repair Solution and Its Competitors by Saab, Andrés

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On long-distance theta-role assignment by Saab, Andrés

“…•Locality and activity in thematic theory.•Derivation of some complex paradigms involving interactions between SE and causative constructions in…”
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A Stereotype Semantics for Syntactically Ambiguous Slurs by Orlando, Eleonora, Saab, Andrés

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Varieties of verbal doubling in Romance by Saab, Andrés

“…Recent research on verbal doubling across languages (Nunes 2004, Martins 2007, Kandybowicz 2009, Biberauer 2009, among others) show that this phenomenon is a…”
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Movement and deletion after syntax: Licensing by inflection reconsidered by Saab, Andrés, Lipták, Anikó

“…In this paper we study the interaction between ellipsis and inflectional morphology and put forward a generalization about ellipsis blocking the application of…”
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Hungarian particle reduplication as local doubling by Lipták, Anikó, Saab, Andrés

“…This paper provides a morphosyntactic account of particle reduplication in Hungarian, a case of reduplication whose function is to express repetition of…”
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No Name: The Allosemy View by Saab, Andrés, Lo Guercio, Nicolás

“…According to certain versions of predicativism, names denote metalinguistic predicates of a certain type, e.g. the name Perón as it occurs in the sentence…”
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No N-raising out of NPs in Spanish: ellipsis as a diagnostic of head movement by Lipták, Anikó, Saab, Andrés

“…In this paper, we present a novel test for diagnosing head movement across languages, based on the availability of X-stranding XP-ellipsis. As we argue,…”
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The Romance Inter-Views: Syntax by Armstrong, Grant, Arregi, Karlos, De Clercq, Karen, Donati, Caterina, Fábregas, Antonio, Rizzi, Luigi, Saab, Andrés, Schifano, Norma

“…The Romance Inter-Views are short, multiple Q&A pairs that address key issues, definitions and ideas regarding Romance linguistics. Prominent exponents of…”
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Neither agreement nor pronouns by Andrés Saab

“…Baker & Kramer (2018) suggests that the distribution of clitic doubling in Spanish follows from Weak Crossover. Thus, the fact that in accusative clitic…”
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Se out of control by Andrés Saab

“…Within the framework of a uniform theory of the so-called se constructions in Spanish, I propose to explain a control ban that has received almost no attention…”
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A short note on honorifics and personal articles in Spanish and Catalan and its consequences for the theory of proper names by Andrés Saab

“…Building on recent findings in Bernstein et al. (2019), regarding the syntactic distribution of personal articles in Catalan and honorifics in Spanish, I…”
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Corrigendum to “On long-distance theta-role assignment” [Lingua 160 (2015) 91–126] by Saab, Andrés

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Syntax or nothing: Some theoretical and empirical remarks on implicit arguments by Saab, Andres

“…I show that core implicit subjects in Spanish (i.e., the ones that occur with analytical passives, impersonal se, and causatives) can be derived from a theory…”
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