
Mercedes Tubino-BlancoWestern Michigan University | WMU · Department of Spanish
Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
PhD Linguistics, University of Arizona
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Introduction
Mercedes Tubino currently works at the Department of Spanish, Western Michigan University. Mercedes does research in Linguistic Typology, Morphology and Syntax. Their most recent publication is 'Causative/Inchoative in Morphology'.
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September 2011 - July 2014
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In this paper, we discuss the evidential properties of inferential interrogative sentences with qué in Spanish. This interrogative type exhibits the shape of a wh-question but the interpretation of a polar question. These sentences have the additional particularity that they are interrogatives with evidential material, which are attested but not fr...
This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old Spanish, Old Portuguese, and West-Iberian Medieval Latin)...
The different patterns of the direct (i.e., lexical) causativization exhibited by intransitive verbs are a fundamental topic in the lexical semantics area. The possibilities and restrictions observed in the causativization of intransitives have always triggered divisions in their classification beyond the classical unergative-unaccusative distincti...
The Causative/Inchoative alternation involves pairs of verbs, one of which is causative and the other non-causative syntactically and semantically (e.g., John broke the window vs. The window broke). In its causative use, an alternating verb is used transitively and understood as externally caused. When used non-causatively, the verb is intransitive...
Algunas clases de verbos dan lugar a ambigüedades en la interpretación de sus sujetos como voluntarios e involuntarios sin ser la consecuencia de transformaciones sintácticas (ej., anticausativización). Proponemos que la interpretación de estos verbos se deriva directamente de su especificación léxica y la estructura sintáctica que licencian, sigui...
This article presents a typological/descriptive approach to the phenomenon of syntactic valency alternations, in order to explore the relationship between morphology and syntax observed in agglutinating languages such as Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan). In particular, this article deals with cases in which valency changes are simultaneously exhibited in the sy...
This article presents a typological/descriptive approach to the phenomenon of syntactic valency alternations, in order to explore the relationship between morphology and syntax observed in agglutinating languages such as Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan). In particular, this article deals with cases in which valency changes are simultaneously exhibited in the sy...
We support the claim (Embick 2010, Bobaljik 2012) that suppletion is triggered locally by showing that number suppletion in Hiaki invariably occurs within the same phase and XP containing the suppletion target (the verbal Root) and its trigger (its complement). Evidence from their incompatibility with high applicatives suggests that Hiaki intransit...
The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful contingent upon the success of the event itself, whic...
The different patterns of lexical (direct) causativization exhibited by intransitive
verbs are a fundamental topic in the lexical semantics area. The possibilities and
restrictions observed in the causativization of intransitives have always triggered
divisions in their classification (Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995) beyond the
classical unergative...
In Distributed Morphology, any features that are syntactically (and possibly semantically) active must be a property of the abstract morphemes which are input to syntactic derivation. However, this chapter argues that class features in Hiaki are not properties of roots in the syntax but rather are properties of Vocabulary Items, the phonological ex...
Essays that offer original theoretical contributions in Distributed Morphology and highlight the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a founder of the field.
This collection offers a snapshot of current research in Distributed Morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed Morphology,...
This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the expression of causation, available both intra- and c...
Several intransitive verbs of motion or posture in Hiaki exhibit verb-stem suppletion condi- tioned by the number of the subject. ere are also a few suppletive transitive verbs conditioned by the number of the object. We argue in this paper that suppletion in these verb roots is trig- gered only by underlying objects, and that the intransitive mem...