Acknowledgements

This monograph is a revised version of my PhD dissertation, defended in June 2017 in Bellaterra, Spain. I would like to thank my supervisor, M. Lluïsa Hernanz, as well as all of the amazing linguists at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), in particular Ángel Gallego, Josep M. Brucart and Carlos Rubio, for their generosity and their help.

I spent a semester at the University of Groningen in 2014, where I greatly benefitted from comments and discussion with Mark de Vries, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Marlies Kluck, James Griffiths and Güliz Güneş.

Special gratitude also goes to Dennis Ott, for having discussed with me plenty of issues in this work, as well as Aritz Irurtzun, Antonio Fábregas, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Manuel Leonetti and Vicky Escandell-Vidal.

I would like to thank the series editors Elly van Gelderen and Werner Abrahan for having accepted this book for publication, as well as an anonymous reviewer.