Esther Torrego
Biographic Data
| ID | 844943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Torrego |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrego |
| SIGNATURE | TORREGO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quantifier‐Float
Quantifier‐float (‘ All linguists have read Aspects ’ to ‘Linguists have all read Aspects ’) has posed many research questions since the mid‐1970s. At the center of debate has been the nature of the syntactic relation between Q and its associate. In Sportiche's influential analysis, QF signals an NP‐trace , the product of A‐movement. Extensive research on QF, initially in French and English (on which Sportiche's proposal is mainly based), but lat…
Of grammar, words, and verses
The unaccusative case pattern of Hindi and auxiliary be
Variability in the Case Patterns of Causative Formation in Romance and Its Implications
Taking Folli and Harley's (2007) analysis of Italian fare-causatives as a starting point, and focusing on Spanish, I examine variation in the distribution of the subject of the embedded infinitive in so-called faire-causatives, and I suggest that there is a robust correlation between the size of the embedded complement and the licensing of particular arguments. I reach this conclusion by investigating syntactic complexity in the domain of hacer-c…
The syntax of valuation and the interpretability of features
We present a proposal about the nature of agreement processes and the syntax of its output, and demonstrate that this proposal not only advances the overall understanding of agreement, but also contributes to a simpler view of various syntactic phenomena. At the heart of our proposal is a conception of agreement that draws on various traditions that view it as “feature sharing”. We combine this conception with a proposal that valuation and interp…
Arguments for a Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations Based on Clitics
T-to-C Movement
The research of the last four decades suggests strongly that abstract laws of significant generality underlie much of the superficial complexity of human language. Evidence in favor of this conjecture comes from two different types of facts. First, there are cross-linguistic facts. Investigation of unfamiliar and typologically diverse languages is regularly illuminated by what we already know about other
The Dependencies of Objects
This monograph investigates the nature, properties, and consequences of the grammatical constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages. The author, working within the Minimalist Program, concentrates on the syntactic and semantic behaviors of a particular class of objects: objects morphologically marked by the dative preposition in Romance languages, especially in several Spanish dialects, with consideration of similar …
Nominative Subjects and Pro-Drop INFL
In this article I discuss pro and its licensing strategies. I argue that the D-feature postulated by Chomsky (1995) for Tense and v can be realized in a separate head, namely, on a D, which then licenses pro (along the lines of Torrego (1998)). Focusing on nominative subjects in certain infinitival clauses of Catalan, Italian, and Spanish, I propose that their nominative subjects are licensed by a D with "weak" agreement features in association w…
Evolucion y revolucion en romance
Variability in the Case Patterns of Causative Formation in Romance and Its Implications
Taking Folli and Harley's (2007) analysis of Italian fare-causatives as a starting point, and focusing on Spanish, I examine variation in the distribution of the subject of the embedded infinitive in so-called faire-causatives, and I suggest that there is a robust correlation between the size of the embedded complement and the licensing of particular arguments. I reach this conclusion by investigating syntactic complexity in the domain of hacer-c…
Nominative Subjects and Pro-Drop INFL
In this article I discuss pro and its licensing strategies. I argue that the D-feature postulated by Chomsky (1995) for Tense and v can be realized in a separate head, namely, on a D, which then licenses pro (along the lines of Torrego (1998)). Focusing on nominative subjects in certain infinitival clauses of Catalan, Italian, and Spanish, I propose that their nominative subjects are licensed by a D with "weak" agreement features in association w…
Evolucion y revolucion en romance
The Dependencies of Objects
This monograph investigates the nature, properties, and consequences of the grammatical constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages. The author, working within the Minimalist Program, concentrates on the syntactic and semantic behaviors of a particular class of objects: objects morphologically marked by the dative preposition in Romance languages, especially in several Spanish dialects, with consideration of similar …
Nominative Subjects and Pro-Drop INFL
In this article I discuss pro and its licensing strategies. I argue that the D-feature postulated by Chomsky (1995) for Tense and v can be realized in a separate head, namely, on a D, which then licenses pro (along the lines of Torrego (1998)). Focusing on nominative subjects in certain infinitival clauses of Catalan, Italian, and Spanish, I propose that their nominative subjects are licensed by a D with "weak" agreement features in association w…
T-to-C Movement
The research of the last four decades suggests strongly that abstract laws of significant generality underlie much of the superficial complexity of human language. Evidence in favor of this conjecture comes from two different types of facts. First, there are cross-linguistic facts. Investigation of unfamiliar and typologically diverse languages is regularly illuminated by what we already know about other
Arguments for a Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations Based on Clitics
The syntax of valuation and the interpretability of features
We present a proposal about the nature of agreement processes and the syntax of its output, and demonstrate that this proposal not only advances the overall understanding of agreement, but also contributes to a simpler view of various syntactic phenomena. At the heart of our proposal is a conception of agreement that draws on various traditions that view it as “feature sharing”. We combine this conception with a proposal that valuation and interp…
Variability in the Case Patterns of Causative Formation in Romance and Its Implications
Taking Folli and Harley's (2007) analysis of Italian fare-causatives as a starting point, and focusing on Spanish, I examine variation in the distribution of the subject of the embedded infinitive in so-called faire-causatives, and I suggest that there is a robust correlation between the size of the embedded complement and the licensing of particular arguments. I reach this conclusion by investigating syntactic complexity in the domain of hacer-c…
Of grammar, words, and verses
The unaccusative case pattern of Hindi and auxiliary be
Quantifier‐Float
Quantifier‐float (‘ All linguists have read Aspects ’ to ‘Linguists have all read Aspects ’) has posed many research questions since the mid‐1970s. At the center of debate has been the nature of the syntactic relation between Q and its associate. In Sportiche's influential analysis, QF signals an NP‐trace , the product of A‐movement. Extensive research on QF, initially in French and English (on which Sportiche's proposal is mainly based), but lat…
Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Romance languages (3 works)