Data Representativity and Granularity in Spanish Syntax

Data Representativity and Granularity in Spanish Syntax focuses on the dialogue between Generative Grammar, Variationism, and experimental linguistics with a unique emphasis on Spanish linguistics.

Iván Ortega-Santos is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Theoretical Syntax at the crossroads: Acceptability judgments on trial Chapter 3: Subjecthood across methodologies in Spanish: On the concept of syntactic evidence Chapter 4: Microvariation and dialect distance in the null subject properties of Spanish: Dialectology, corpora, and introspective judgments Chapter 5: Beyond acceptability judgments in experimental linguistics: Relativized Minimality as a tool for interdisciplinary dialogue Chapter 6: Conclusion