This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, opening new avenues of theoretical and empirical discussion. The volume focuses on both European and American varieties of Spanish, addressing several syntactic constructions and phenomena.

Ángel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, and an ICREA Acadèmia researcher. His research focuses on areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, and Romance languages.

• I. European Spanish


• 1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian Spanish


• Francisco Ordóñez and Francesc Roca


• 2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialects


• Inés Fernández-Ordóñez


• 3. Empty Categories and Clitics


• Juan Romero


• 4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperatives


• Julio Villa-García


• 5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country


• Aritz Irurtzun


• 6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish


• Ángel Jiménez-Fernández and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco


• II. American Spanish


• 7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered


• Ángela Di Tullio, Andrés Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski


• 8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian Spanish


• Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo


• 9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish


• Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Carlos Martín Sobrino, and Melanie Uth


• 10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview.


• Ignacio Bosque and José M. Brucart


• 11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian Spanish


• José Camacho


• 12. Reportative que in Mexican Spanish


• Esthela Treviño


• Subject Index


• Language Index