Imanol Suárez-Palma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3530976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imanol Suárez-Palma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imanol |
| FAMILY NAME | Suárez-Palma |
| SIGNATURE | SUÁREZ-PALMA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1935-7662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A comparative study of external possession in Spanish and English
This paper compares external possession in Spanish and English. English typically uses internal possession to express inalienable relationships between a possessor and a body-part noun (BPN) (e.g., “James saw her arm”). However, like Spanish, it also permits external possession when the possessor appears as the verb’s internal argument and the BPN occurs in a locative PP (e.g., “Carlos hit him on the arm”; “Carlos lo golpeó en el brazo”). We argu…
Noncore datives in Basque and Spanish impersonal, passive and anticausative sentences
This paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, i.e. a detransitivized configuration that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings. Although these are agentive constructions (Fernández and Berro 2021), labile change-of-state predicates in these sentences allow for a causative and an anticausative reading, enhanced by the possibility of inserting a purpose clause or a by-itself PP, respectively (Ortiz de Urbina 2003). We sugges…
Inalienable possession (and lack thereof) in Spanish
This paper revisits the phenomenon of inalienable possession between a dative argument and a body-part noun in Spanish. Specifically, it looks at contexts where the inalienable possession interpretation is obligatory, as in constructions containing monoeventive verbs of perception, and those where the inalienable reading becomes optional, namely with bi-eventive predicates denoting a change of state. I offer a possessor raising and applicative hy…
Middle-Passive Constructions, Dative Possessors, and Word Order in Spanish
This paper examines data from Spanish middle-passive sentences whose grammatical subject contains a body-part noun, externally possessed by means of a dative possessor. I advocate for an analysis whereby the possessor originates inside the theme DP and raises to the specifier of an applicative projection to be licensed with dative case. I show that the unmarked order for dative DPs in these configurations is preverbal. These phrases may appear as…
Grammatical encoding of agency in Asturian middle constructions
Middle-passive constructions in Asturian –a Romance language spoken in the diglossic region of Asturias, in northern Spain– appear to optionally allow the occurrence of the reflexive pronoun se in them (esti pan esmigáya(se) fácil; ‘this bread crumbles easily’); this has been traditionally considered a pleonastic use of the reflexive due to the influence of Spanish, i.e. the dominant language in the territory (ALLA 2001). Here, I claim that the p…
Applied arguments in Spanish inchoative middle constructions
Despite displaying identical exponents (a reflexive clitic, imperfective tenses and agreement between the verb and the preverbal definite DP theme), change-of-state predicates in generic/middle contexts (inchoative middles, henceforth), can in fact have two different underlying representations: (i) a generic inchoative and (ii) a generic se-passive, this being the only one projecting a Voice head passivized by the reflexive clitic, which denotes …
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Applied arguments in Spanish inchoative middle constructions
Despite displaying identical exponents (a reflexive clitic, imperfective tenses and agreement between the verb and the preverbal definite DP theme), change-of-state predicates in generic/middle contexts (inchoative middles, henceforth), can in fact have two different underlying representations: (i) a generic inchoative and (ii) a generic se-passive, this being the only one projecting a Voice head passivized by the reflexive clitic, which denotes …
Grammatical encoding of agency in Asturian middle constructions
Middle-passive constructions in Asturian –a Romance language spoken in the diglossic region of Asturias, in northern Spain– appear to optionally allow the occurrence of the reflexive pronoun se in them (esti pan esmigáya(se) fácil; ‘this bread crumbles easily’); this has been traditionally considered a pleonastic use of the reflexive due to the influence of Spanish, i.e. the dominant language in the territory (ALLA 2001). Here, I claim that the p…
Middle-Passive Constructions, Dative Possessors, and Word Order in Spanish
This paper examines data from Spanish middle-passive sentences whose grammatical subject contains a body-part noun, externally possessed by means of a dative possessor. I advocate for an analysis whereby the possessor originates inside the theme DP and raises to the specifier of an applicative projection to be licensed with dative case. I show that the unmarked order for dative DPs in these configurations is preverbal. These phrases may appear as…
Noncore datives in Basque and Spanish impersonal, passive and anticausative sentences
This paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, i.e. a detransitivized configuration that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings. Although these are agentive constructions (Fernández and Berro 2021), labile change-of-state predicates in these sentences allow for a causative and an anticausative reading, enhanced by the possibility of inserting a purpose clause or a by-itself PP, respectively (Ortiz de Urbina 2003). We sugges…
Inalienable possession (and lack thereof) in Spanish
This paper revisits the phenomenon of inalienable possession between a dative argument and a body-part noun in Spanish. Specifically, it looks at contexts where the inalienable possession interpretation is obligatory, as in constructions containing monoeventive verbs of perception, and those where the inalienable reading becomes optional, namely with bi-eventive predicates denoting a change of state. I offer a possessor raising and applicative hy…
A comparative study of external possession in Spanish and English
This paper compares external possession in Spanish and English. English typically uses internal possession to express inalienable relationships between a possessor and a body-part noun (BPN) (e.g., “James saw her arm”). However, like Spanish, it also permits external possession when the possessor appears as the verb’s internal argument and the BPN occurs in a locative PP (e.g., “Carlos hit him on the arm”; “Carlos lo golpeó en el brazo”). We argu…
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · History (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Clitic (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)