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Is there such a thing as attributive vs. modifier uses of adj? Is un rojo carro vs. un carro rojo the same difference as 红房子 vs. 红的房子？
In teaching Spanish I often explain the difference between pre-nominal adjectives and post-nominal adjectives as the difference between an English noun phrase in which the adjective is stressed, and ...
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What is the name of this syntactic construct: "May [Subject] [Verb]"?
Sentences like "Let such and such be done" or "May this happen". What is the name of this construct?
More examples from Spanish:
Que ellos entren ahora (Let them in now).
Que se muerte les ...
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How to determine an immediate constituent of a sentence [closed]
I am studying Spanish and Portuguese at university, and I am having some trouble with part of a Spanish linguistics assignment. I would be very grateful if somebody could shed some light on how to ...
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Are Spanish "que" clauses following "parece" complements or postponed subjects?
The Spanish equivalent of It seems that they hate each other is Parece que se odian.
In both languages seem/parecer are one-place predicates (well, both can optionally accept a second argument with ...
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Predication in X-Bar theory
Where do predicatives (predicative adjectives and nominals) over the subject or over the object fit into an X-bar-tree?
For instance:
Pedro pintó a María sentada.
Peter painted Mary seated. (=...
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Focus-marking in different varieties of Spanish
Spanish is often described as putting focused constituents at the end of the sentence, leading for instance to VOS word order in sentences with a focused subject. (For instance, Maria Zubizarreta's ...
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