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This article provides an overview of the main facts and theories regarding nominal modifiers, with attention to the internal division of the low DP-structure (gender, number and N). The article presents first the notion of modification seen from the perspectives of semantics and syntax (§1); adjective classes are discussed in §2. §3 discusses the contrasts between prenominal and postnominal adjectives; §4 discusses the ordering of adjectives in sequences; §5 reviews the main theories that account for the facts discussed in §3 and §4. §6 moves to prepositional modifiers, presenting facts and theories about them. §7 presents the conclusions.

Spanish syllable-final s has been found to be completely stable in the great majority of the varieties in which it has been studied as a sociolinguistic variable. The same is true for the variety of Ciudad Real, Spain, where our data have shown not only lack of indication of any type of change at the present moment through inferences made from apparent time, but also evidence of its stability in the last hundred years by looking at the data from the available linguistic atlases. However, in our investigation, we performed a study of all the separate contexts in which the syllable-final s occurs, and it was discovered that in one of them, the sequence /s/+/t/, a different kind of behavior was registered. Namely, in this specific context, apparent-time inferences additionally supported by the older linguistic atlas data show a clear pattern of a change from above towards a normative realization of the sibilant. In this paper, we will try to explain how it is possible for a stable variable to contain within itself a subvariable which in turn shows signs of a change in progress.  

Una distinción ya clásica en la bibliografía lingüística diferencia dos tipos de adjetivos: los denominados adjetivos de nivel individual, como alto y los adjetivos de nivel de estadio como sucio (en lo sucesivo adjetivos i-level y s-level respectivamente, por su denominación en inglés). Para Chierchia (1995), los adjetivos i-level presentan en su Estructura Argumental (EA) un argumento eventivo <e> saturado desde el lexicón e interpretado en Forma Lógica como genérico, mientras que los adjetivos s-level presentan ese mismo argumento sin saturar en su EA. Para Kratzer (1995), por el contrario, solo los adjetivos s-level contarían en su EA con dicho argumento eventivo. El objetivo de esta investigación es ofrecer evidencia que apoye una de estas dos propuestas teóricas. Para ello, una vez resumidas las conclusiones de trabajos anteriores (teóricos y empíricos), se presentará un experimento conductual, en el que se miden tiempos de lectura. Los resultados de este experimento parecen apoyar la propuesta de Chierchia (1995), dado que los adjetivos i-level muestran una mayor carga léxica (con efectos de coerción) que los adjetivos s-level.

Aspectual modifiers that have adverbial and adjectival counterparts are an important source of information for researching lexical aspect in the nominal domain. One class of such modifiers are adverbs of completeness (completamente 'completely', totalmente 'totally'), which are maximizers when modify adjectives, and their correspondent adjectives (completo 'complete', total 'total'). This paper addresses the inheritance of aspectual features and its relation to degree in event nominalizations of incremental theme verbs (traduccción 'translation', destrucción 'destruction') through the analysis modification by adjectives of completeness in Spanish. The proposal combines a syntactic account of deverbal nominalizations with a scalar approach to aspect. Adjectives of completeness are argued to be aspectual modifiers, with a contribution equivalent to that of their adverbial counterparts both in the verbal and in the adjectival domain, establishing thus a parallelism between degree modification of adjectives, verbs and nominals.

This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no question (e.g. –Did you buy {mumble}?; –Did I buy what?) and makes a detailed description, on the one hand, of inherent echo features, common across most languages, and, on the other, those language-specific. In particular, I argue that wh-in-situ is not the only possible option in Spanish EQs in order to get a proper, echo interpretation. In addition, I offer some evidence from Spanish data in favour of a particular syntactic structure underlying this sort of questions (Sobin 2010).

En este artículo se analizan las principales interferencias morfosintácticas del finés en las producciones en español de escolares de dos tipos de enseñanza bilingüe: la escuela bilingüe y los cursos de mantenimiento de la lengua materna. La recolección de datos se efectuó en dos periodos distintos, separados por un tiempo de dos años.Los alumnos bilingües de primaria tienen una gran influencia de la lengua dominante, el finés, que se plasma en sus producciones lingüísticas, tanto orales como escritas. El análisis muestra que las principales interferencias morfosintácticas se centran en cuatro tipos distintos: discordancia en género, uso erróneo de preposiciones, uso erróneo de algunos verbos y del tiempo verbal y omisión de artículos. Los resultados muestran como el número de interferencias desciende a través del tiempo, quedando patente la relación inversamente proporcional entre el número de interferencias y competencia, evidenciando una adquisición incompleta de su lengua minoritaria.

Aquest article examina el comportament sintàctic d’un conjunt de verbs ditransitius del català que, contràriament al que prediu la gramàtica, permeten la passivització del complement indirecte. Les dades, que fins ara no havien estat objecte d’estudi, suggereixen que aquesta passivització no parteix d’una estructura ditransitiva en la sintaxi lèxica, sinó d’una estructura semblant a la dels verbs de locatum de Hale & Keyser (1993, 1998) en la qual el receptor del verb no és, en realitat, un objecte indirecte, sinó l’argument intern del verb. Així mateix, a partir de les restriccions que observem en la sintaxi oracional, proposem que el participi per si mateix no pot assignar cas (en el sentit d’Ormazábal & Romero 2013) a l’argument, de manera que l’argument es pot moure a la posició de subjecte de la clàusula participial, però sí que n’assigna quan es combina amb alguns verbs, com ara el copulatiu estar, amb la qual cosa l’argument queda fixat i no es pot promoure. Finalment, concloem que aquesta impossibilitat d’assignar cas és una prova més del fet que els participis són elements deficients, amb una estructura menys rica i complexa que la del verb.

In the 20th century, Modern Architecture experimented changes and transformations as a result of the many natural, economic, political, war and social crises. Each scenario of conflict became a turning point and a niche of opportunities to explore for architecture, which was between invention and reproduction. Through the complexity of systems and the emergence of new mechanisms of transmission and materialization of ideas, the game tool emerges to facilitate exercises of improvisation, variation, repetition and random. The productive capacity of the game, during the process of a project, is determined by its context and its rules. Using the crisis as a playground, three productive tools are proposed: games of chance, construction games and rules games, which can respond to 3 cyclical situations of need with different rules of play: emergency, informality and provocation.

El Llano Subercaseaux is a well-known neighborhood, but little studied. Located in San Miguel, commune of Santiago, stands out for its close relationship with the concept of the “garden city” in the expansion of Santiago at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the real estate development has intervened strongly in the neighborhood, changing its originals attributes. The research is focused on relieving the process of evolution of the neighborhood as historical, urban and architectural level, to understand the concepts that influenced in the adaptation of its residential typology through time and recognize the values that are still held, using a typological methodology that accounts for it.

Shell structures, such as the works by Eduardo Torroja and Félix Candela, have been a qualitative leap in the spatial conception of the architecture of the twentieth century. Today, the fact that this typology is unused, is an interesting fact, not related to the resistance considerations. The coming and going of structural systems is always linked to historical changes, that allow us to understand the reasoning that govern human activity, and allow us to face the future with the weight of the technical and historical consciousness. This study is part of a doctoral thesis that sought to understand the incidence of material, technical and calculational capabilities in the architectural conception, especially in architectures of large spans, such as the ambit of reference.