Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro is involved.
2025 Word order optionality in question formation in Chinese copula clauses The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions, Huang, C.-T. James (ed.), pp. 224–245 | Article
Alongside superiority shi shenme ‘what is superiority?,’ which displays a canonical word order, the order shenme shi superiority is also possible in Chinese. In this paper I argue that this optionality results from a derivation that starts with merger of the two heads shenme ‘what’ and… read more
2020 Are donkey sentences and bare conditionals family or friends? Evidence from L1 Chinese Concentric 46:1, pp. 66–94 | Article
The present study investigates children’s first language acquisition of donkey sentences and bare conditionals in Mandarin Chinese, both of which are concerned with quantification. Kindergarteners, Grade 2 and Grade 4 were recruited for experimental groups, each group consisting of 18 subjects,… read more
2008 The Case-F valuation parameter in Romance The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 295–310 | Article
In this paper I propose that the operation of Agree (Chomsky 2000, 2001) isparameterized with respect to the valuation of Case features. I build here on theideas put forward in Fernández-Salgueiro (2005), where I argued that Agreehas to be modified in certain respects in order to generate… read more
2006 He himself and binding domains in a minimalist framework Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 221–231 | Article
2005 Agree, the EPP-F and Further-raising in Spanish Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004, Gess, Randall and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), pp. 97–107 | Article