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dc.contributor.advisorOlarrea, Antxonen_US
dc.contributor.authorOrtega-Santos, Iván
dc.creatorOrtega-Santos, Ivánen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-16T09:53:04Z
dc.date.available2013-05-16T09:53:04Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/292060
dc.description.abstractTraditionally, subject licensing has been linked to the presence of agreement. From that point of view, Spanish infinitives are not supposed to have overt subjects since they do not have any agreement. However, overt subjects occur in Spanish whenever the infinitive is ungoverned, (Lagunilla, 1987; Hernanz, 1999). This thesis focuses on the licensing of these overt subjects and the occurrence of these subjects and PRO in the same contexts. After reviewing previous analyses, Lagunilla (1987), Suner (1994), Torrego (1998) and Rigau (1995). I claim that: (i) Spanish infinitives have abstract agreement (Rigau, 1995; Torrego, 1998); (ii) there is an agreement absorption mechanism that prevents governed infinitives from having agreement. In this proposal, only ungoverned infinitives would have agreement. I take Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou's (1998) assumptions on the EPP in Spanish to show that my approach is consistent with an account of the distribution of PRO as EPP-driven (Harley, 2000).
dc.language.isoesen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en_US
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dc.subjectSpanish and Portugueseen_US
dc.titleLos Sujetos Lexicos de Infinitivo en Español: Concordancia Abstracta y el Principio de la Proyeccion Extendidaen_US
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dc.typeThesis-Reproduction (electronic)en_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
dc.identifier.proquest1416935en_US
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate Collegeen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSpanish and Portugueseen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.bibrecord.b44666329en_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-06-19T09:02:56Z
html.description.abstractTraditionally, subject licensing has been linked to the presence of agreement. From that point of view, Spanish infinitives are not supposed to have overt subjects since they do not have any agreement. However, overt subjects occur in Spanish whenever the infinitive is ungoverned, (Lagunilla, 1987; Hernanz, 1999). This thesis focuses on the licensing of these overt subjects and the occurrence of these subjects and PRO in the same contexts. After reviewing previous analyses, Lagunilla (1987), Suner (1994), Torrego (1998) and Rigau (1995). I claim that: (i) Spanish infinitives have abstract agreement (Rigau, 1995; Torrego, 1998); (ii) there is an agreement absorption mechanism that prevents governed infinitives from having agreement. In this proposal, only ungoverned infinitives would have agreement. I take Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou's (1998) assumptions on the EPP in Spanish to show that my approach is consistent with an account of the distribution of PRO as EPP-driven (Harley, 2000).


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