Antonio Fábregas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Fábregas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Fábregas |
| SIGNATURE | FÁBREGAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
No ellipsis-contained antecedents: Adjunct-licensed ellipsis in Spanish
While implicitly assumed, the restriction that the antecedent of ellipsis cannot be base-merged within the ellipsis site has not to our knowledge been explicitly stated or analysed. In this article we discuss a pattern of ellipsis in Spanish, resembling gapping but we argue distinct from it, where ellipsis in the main clause can find its antecedent in some but not all adverbial clauses. The adverbial clauses that cannot provide the antecedent for…
Restricciones a las impersonales con "se" y anclaje al hablante
En español suele decirse que las impersonales reflejas (Se vive bien en Lima) no tienen restricciones léxicas más allá de la que impone una lectura humana a los sujetos implícitos (*Las personas llueven ~ *Se llueve). Este trabajo identifica dos grupos de verbos estativos que rechazan la impersonal pero admiten sujetos humanos: los verbos de relevancia y de cantidad. El análisis propone que, en ausencia de otros antecedentes que lo manden-c, el s…
Events always take (place with) ser
The present study aims to throw light on the behavior of the Spanish copulas ser and estar in locative sentences, beyond their classical distinction in terms of Individual-Level (IL) versus Stage-Level (SL) predicates. The behavior of the Spanish copulas in locative contexts constitutes an oddity that we aim to probe here: events ( concierto ‘concert’), despite their clear spatial and temporal anchorage, combine with ser ( El concierto es en Parí…
On event-denoting deadjectival nominalizations
This paper offers a principled account for the nominalizations of dispositional evaluative adjectives. On the descriptive side, the paper shows that (i) in addition to the largely studied deverbal nominalizations, certain deadjectival nominalizations can also refer to events; (ii) the types of adjectives that enable eventive denotation are of a specific sort, namely, those deriving from Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives (e.g., imprudent ). At t…
The Internal Structure of Spanish-German Verbalizations and the Sophistication of Bilinguals' Linguistic Knowledge
The present article reassesses some available data regarding word-internal language mixing (Spanish-German) involving verbs and nouns. The empirical generalization is that Spanish roots can be combined with German verbalizers, but not vice versa. Data of this type highlight the sophisticated knowledge of the underlying representations that code-switching bilinguals must have of both contributing grammars and, in turn, how these contribute to the …
The Internal Structure of Perfective Adjectives: States and Blocking
The goal of this article is to discuss the nature of so-called perfective adjectives in Spanish ( desnudo ‘naked,’ suelto ‘loose’). We do so through a discussion of the problem that participles are blocked by perfective adjectives in some contexts ( Dejó la habitación {limpia / ∗limpiada} ‘He left the room {clean / ∗cleaned}). We will argue that perfective adjectives contain in their internal structure a StateP that can contextually be interprete…
On inhibited eventualities
Mixed categories: The morphosyntax of noun modification by Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer
A scientific theory is judged by its ability to provide a principled explanation of less straightforward facts that lie at the margins of the data normally discussed and captured by other theories. To the extent that those data naturally follow from the new proposal, that theory is successfull in defining a new paradigm. Mixed Categories, by Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer, is an excellent example of how to deliver a maximally explicit morphol…
The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Copular verbs and copular sentences have been for many years a central issue in the theoretical discussions about the nature of (light) verbs and other grammatical categories, the ingredients of predication structures, the properties of nominal categories, agreement, and the interaction between syntax and semantics at the level of clause structure. The current research on copulas has gone beyond the investigation of what kind of objects they are,…
Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Rd person clitic combinations across Catalan varieties: Consequences of the nature of the dative clitic
This article argues that variation in how 3rd person clitic combinations are solved across Catalan varieties depends on the internal morphosyntactic shape of the dative clitic in each variety. We argue that the dative clitic in Valencian Catalan is an inherently case-marked pronominal form (KP), while non Valencian Catalan varieties, that contain a locative clitic, build the dative as a definite locative pronominal which receives structural case.…
On exceptional stress assignment in Latvian: The case of prefixes
In this article, we examine some previously understudied exceptions to the generalization that Latvian assigns stress to the left-most syllable in a prosodic word, specifically those that involve prefixation. We will show that these apparent exceptions in stress assignment follow from the internal structural properties of the word and are a result of attaching the prefix outside the domain where stress is assigned, which is up to the first functi…
On non-dynamic eventive verbs in Spanish
One of the longstanding problems in linguistic analysis is to identify, describe, and analyze the lexical aspect classes allowed in natural language. Recent developments on this issue have raised two interrelated questions: how many event classes there are and how they are derived from a minimum of primitives. In this article, we identify a class of predicates denoting the maintenance of a situation through which 13 tests can be shown to display …
Una nota sobre el morfo cero: El imperativo y la vocal temática
La noción de afijo cero resulta sumamente polémica en los estudios morfológicos desde Nida (1948), por lo que numerosos autores han propuesto que no pueden emplearse como objetos del análisis morfológico (p. ej., Scalise 1983). Este trabajo proporciona un argumento del español a favor de admitirlos como elementos posibles de la estructura interna de las palabras: sin postular un sufijo cero para la tercera persona singular no es posible dar cuent…
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs
This paper provides an analysis of transparent gerunds in Spanish, as in¿Qué llegó [silbandoqué] Juan?'What arrived [whistlingwhat] Juan?', using a decomposition of Aktionsart in a series of syntactic heads. A traditional analysis of these secondary predicates as adjuncts would undermine well-established syntactic principles restricting movement and extraction. We argue that these transparent gerunds should be analyzed as syntactic constituents m…
Morphology in Linguistics
Deriving individual-level and stage-level psych verbs in Spanish
Aspectual notions, although displayed most clearly in verbs, manifest across categories, with notions like (un)boundedness manifesting themselves in several instantiations which are sometimes specific of individual grammatical categories. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on how aspectual notions emerge in different categorial domains by an analysis of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer psychological predicates (SEPVs and OEPVs…
The emergence of middle voice structures with and without agents
This article presents evidence that, cross-linguistically or within the same language (family), there appears to be no morphosyntactic properties and/or structures specifically designated for the formation of middle voice constructions. What has been labeled a ‘middle voice construction’ is a semantic interpretation that, crucially, is blocked when an event variable is existentially closed by T. This article focuses on two ways of expressing a mi…
On the Locative Reading of Dimensional Adjectives and the Internal Syntax of Estar
In this article, we analyze a previously undescribed copulative construction with estar : one where the predicate, a dimensional adjective, denotes properties of the location occupied by the clause subject, as in La bandera está alta ‘The flag is placed in a high position.’ We show that this construction provides direct evidence for the analysis of estar as a morphophonological exponent that lexicalizes a copulative verb and a preposition, as pro…
Los genitivos múltiples en español: Restricciones léxicas y sintácticas
Este trabajo discute las condiciones bajo las cuales es posible tener dos sintagmas genitivos marcados con de referidos al mismo sustantivo; se identifican dos casos: nombres eventivos (la manipulación de Juan de materiales radioactivos) y nombres de representación (el retrato de Marilyn de Warhol). Estos datos son empleados para evaluar críticamente tres aproximaciones posibles al rechazo general a las secuencias marcadas idénticamente en las le…
Morphological variation in Spanish
Argument structure and aspect in adjectives and participles: Where are we
Argument structure and morphologically underived nouns in Spanish and English
Insercion léxica tardía en la concordancia verbal y las interrogativas divididas
This article addresses the problem of how lexicon and grammar interact with each other. Through the study of two empirical cases we argue for a late insertion account in which items are introduced to spell out grammatical constructions without the intermediation of additional levels of operations. We argue that data like those are best handled by a system like that, to the extent that no additional assumptions have to be made. The two phenomena s…
Morphology: From Data to Theories
Argument structure and morphologically underived nouns in Spanish and English
The role of Aktionsart in deverbal nouns: State nominalizations across languages
Most of the literature devoted to the study of deverbal nominalizations concentrates on the complex event reading (e.g. La concentración de partículas tiene lugar a temperatura ambiente ‘The concentration of particles takes place at room temperature’) and the object reading (e.g. El paciente tenía concentraciones de calcio en el hombro ‘The patient had calcium concentrations in the shoulder’), while nominalizations denoting states (e.g. La concen…
An argument for phrasal spell-out: Indefinites and interrogatives in Spanish
In this article we will provide evidence in favour of Phrasal Spell Out (PSO), a procedure of lexical insertion where non-terminal nodes in a tree configuration can be targeted by spell-out. We will propose that the formal differences between two Spanish indefinite pronouns, alguien and alguno , can be captured if the morpheme -ien is analyzed as a lexical item which corresponds to a syntactic phrase; this phrase, crucially, is broken in the pres…
On inhibited eventualities
On non-dynamic eventive verbs in Spanish
One of the longstanding problems in linguistic analysis is to identify, describe, and analyze the lexical aspect classes allowed in natural language. Recent developments on this issue have raised two interrelated questions: how many event classes there are and how they are derived from a minimum of primitives. In this article, we identify a class of predicates denoting the maintenance of a situation through which 13 tests can be shown to display …
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs
This paper provides an analysis of transparent gerunds in Spanish, as in¿Qué llegó [silbandoqué] Juan?'What arrived [whistlingwhat] Juan?', using a decomposition of Aktionsart in a series of syntactic heads. A traditional analysis of these secondary predicates as adjuncts would undermine well-established syntactic principles restricting movement and extraction. We argue that these transparent gerunds should be analyzed as syntactic constituents m…
Los genitivos múltiples en español: Restricciones léxicas y sintácticas
Este trabajo discute las condiciones bajo las cuales es posible tener dos sintagmas genitivos marcados con de referidos al mismo sustantivo; se identifican dos casos: nombres eventivos (la manipulación de Juan de materiales radioactivos) y nombres de representación (el retrato de Marilyn de Warhol). Estos datos son empleados para evaluar críticamente tres aproximaciones posibles al rechazo general a las secuencias marcadas idénticamente en las le…
Gender agreement on adverbs in Spanish
In this article we explore the exceptional gender agreement of the Spanish adverb mucho ('much'), when it modifies comparative adjectives inside DPs that contain a particular type of noun (as in muchafem mejor intenciónfem, 'much better intention'). This phenomenon, which we describe in detail, raises crucial questions both about the mechanisms of agreement and about the nature of gender in a language such as Spanish. We will argue on the basis o…
Gender agreement on adverbs in Spanish
In this article we explore the exceptional gender agreement of the Spanish adverb mucho ('much'), when it modifies comparative adjectives inside DPs that contain a particular type of noun (as in muchafem mejor intenciónfem, 'much better intention'). This phenomenon, which we describe in detail, raises crucial questions both about the mechanisms of agreement and about the nature of gender in a language such as Spanish. We will argue on the basis o…
An argument for phrasal spell-out: Indefinites and interrogatives in Spanish
In this article we will provide evidence in favour of Phrasal Spell Out (PSO), a procedure of lexical insertion where non-terminal nodes in a tree configuration can be targeted by spell-out. We will propose that the formal differences between two Spanish indefinite pronouns, alguien and alguno , can be captured if the morpheme -ien is analyzed as a lexical item which corresponds to a syntactic phrase; this phrase, crucially, is broken in the pres…
The role of Aktionsart in deverbal nouns: State nominalizations across languages
Most of the literature devoted to the study of deverbal nominalizations concentrates on the complex event reading (e.g. La concentración de partículas tiene lugar a temperatura ambiente ‘The concentration of particles takes place at room temperature’) and the object reading (e.g. El paciente tenía concentraciones de calcio en el hombro ‘The patient had calcium concentrations in the shoulder’), while nominalizations denoting states (e.g. La concen…
Morphology: From Data to Theories
Zero nouns with and without objects
One of the main topics on the study of the relationship between syntax and morphology is (deverbal) nominalizations. In this area, several generalizations that tie the morphological make-up with the syntactic structure have been made. Most relevantly, it has been argued that only overt nominalizations (those that include a nominalizer like -ation or ‐ment ) are allowed to have internal arguments introduced in their structural representation. In t…
Insercion léxica tardía en la concordancia verbal y las interrogativas divididas
This article addresses the problem of how lexicon and grammar interact with each other. Through the study of two empirical cases we argue for a late insertion account in which items are introduced to spell out grammatical constructions without the intermediation of additional levels of operations. We argue that data like those are best handled by a system like that, to the extent that no additional assumptions have to be made. The two phenomena s…
The emergence of middle voice structures with and without agents
This article presents evidence that, cross-linguistically or within the same language (family), there appears to be no morphosyntactic properties and/or structures specifically designated for the formation of middle voice constructions. What has been labeled a ‘middle voice construction’ is a semantic interpretation that, crucially, is blocked when an event variable is existentially closed by T. This article focuses on two ways of expressing a mi…
On the Locative Reading of Dimensional Adjectives and the Internal Syntax of Estar
In this article, we analyze a previously undescribed copulative construction with estar : one where the predicate, a dimensional adjective, denotes properties of the location occupied by the clause subject, as in La bandera está alta ‘The flag is placed in a high position.’ We show that this construction provides direct evidence for the analysis of estar as a morphophonological exponent that lexicalizes a copulative verb and a preposition, as pro…
Los genitivos múltiples en español: Restricciones léxicas y sintácticas
Este trabajo discute las condiciones bajo las cuales es posible tener dos sintagmas genitivos marcados con de referidos al mismo sustantivo; se identifican dos casos: nombres eventivos (la manipulación de Juan de materiales radioactivos) y nombres de representación (el retrato de Marilyn de Warhol). Estos datos son empleados para evaluar críticamente tres aproximaciones posibles al rechazo general a las secuencias marcadas idénticamente en las le…
Morphological variation in Spanish
Argument structure and aspect in adjectives and participles: Where are we
Argument structure and morphologically underived nouns in Spanish and English
Morphology in Linguistics
Deriving individual-level and stage-level psych verbs in Spanish
Aspectual notions, although displayed most clearly in verbs, manifest across categories, with notions like (un)boundedness manifesting themselves in several instantiations which are sometimes specific of individual grammatical categories. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on how aspectual notions emerge in different categorial domains by an analysis of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer psychological predicates (SEPVs and OEPVs…
Una nota sobre el morfo cero: El imperativo y la vocal temática
La noción de afijo cero resulta sumamente polémica en los estudios morfológicos desde Nida (1948), por lo que numerosos autores han propuesto que no pueden emplearse como objetos del análisis morfológico (p. ej., Scalise 1983). Este trabajo proporciona un argumento del español a favor de admitirlos como elementos posibles de la estructura interna de las palabras: sin postular un sufijo cero para la tercera persona singular no es posible dar cuent…
Extraction from gerunds and the internal syntax of verbs
This paper provides an analysis of transparent gerunds in Spanish, as in¿Qué llegó [silbandoqué] Juan?'What arrived [whistlingwhat] Juan?', using a decomposition of Aktionsart in a series of syntactic heads. A traditional analysis of these secondary predicates as adjuncts would undermine well-established syntactic principles restricting movement and extraction. We argue that these transparent gerunds should be analyzed as syntactic constituents m…
On non-dynamic eventive verbs in Spanish
One of the longstanding problems in linguistic analysis is to identify, describe, and analyze the lexical aspect classes allowed in natural language. Recent developments on this issue have raised two interrelated questions: how many event classes there are and how they are derived from a minimum of primitives. In this article, we identify a class of predicates denoting the maintenance of a situation through which 13 tests can be shown to display …
On exceptional stress assignment in Latvian: The case of prefixes
In this article, we examine some previously understudied exceptions to the generalization that Latvian assigns stress to the left-most syllable in a prosodic word, specifically those that involve prefixation. We will show that these apparent exceptions in stress assignment follow from the internal structural properties of the word and are a result of attaching the prefix outside the domain where stress is assigned, which is up to the first functi…
The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Copular verbs and copular sentences have been for many years a central issue in the theoretical discussions about the nature of (light) verbs and other grammatical categories, the ingredients of predication structures, the properties of nominal categories, agreement, and the interaction between syntax and semantics at the level of clause structure. The current research on copulas has gone beyond the investigation of what kind of objects they are,…
Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Rd person clitic combinations across Catalan varieties: Consequences of the nature of the dative clitic
This article argues that variation in how 3rd person clitic combinations are solved across Catalan varieties depends on the internal morphosyntactic shape of the dative clitic in each variety. We argue that the dative clitic in Valencian Catalan is an inherently case-marked pronominal form (KP), while non Valencian Catalan varieties, that contain a locative clitic, build the dative as a definite locative pronominal which receives structural case.…
The Internal Structure of Perfective Adjectives: States and Blocking
The goal of this article is to discuss the nature of so-called perfective adjectives in Spanish ( desnudo ‘naked,’ suelto ‘loose’). We do so through a discussion of the problem that participles are blocked by perfective adjectives in some contexts ( Dejó la habitación {limpia / ∗limpiada} ‘He left the room {clean / ∗cleaned}). We will argue that perfective adjectives contain in their internal structure a StateP that can contextually be interprete…
On inhibited eventualities
Mixed categories: The morphosyntax of noun modification by Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer
A scientific theory is judged by its ability to provide a principled explanation of less straightforward facts that lie at the margins of the data normally discussed and captured by other theories. To the extent that those data naturally follow from the new proposal, that theory is successfull in defining a new paradigm. Mixed Categories, by Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer, is an excellent example of how to deliver a maximally explicit morphol…
On event-denoting deadjectival nominalizations
This paper offers a principled account for the nominalizations of dispositional evaluative adjectives. On the descriptive side, the paper shows that (i) in addition to the largely studied deverbal nominalizations, certain deadjectival nominalizations can also refer to events; (ii) the types of adjectives that enable eventive denotation are of a specific sort, namely, those deriving from Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives (e.g., imprudent ). At t…
Philosophy (23 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (23 works) · Linguistics (21 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (11 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Natural language processing (7 works)