Heles Contreras
List of John Benjamins publications in which Heles Contreras is involved.
2017 Spanish participial adjectives and individual-level/stage-level interpretations in nominals Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 279–304 | Chapter
This article addresses the well-known restriction on stage-level readings of pre-nominal predicative adjectives in Spanish. We argue that this restriction is due to a structural difference between ‘direct modifiers’ and ‘indirect modifiers’ as has been previously proposed in the literature (Demonte… read more
2009 Word Order and Minimalism Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, Masullo, Pascual José, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang (eds.), pp. 69–87 | Article
The minimalist program, with its clear separation between constituency, relevant to LF, and linear order, relevant to PF, makes it possible and, I would claim, natural to pursue an approach to ‘free’ word order as the result of underspecification.In contrast with the prevailing tradition that… read more
2004 A Restricted View of Head Movement Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 47–68 | Article
1999 Deconstructing Weak Crossover Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli, Franco, Jon A., Alazne Landa and Juan Martín (eds.), pp. 35–44 | Article
1989 On Spanish empty N’ and N Studies in Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings from the XVII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Kirschner, Carl and Janet Ann DeCesaris (eds.), pp. 83–95 | Article
1985 Clausal case-marking and the CRP Selected papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance: Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24–26 March 1983, King, Larry D. and Catherine A. Maley (eds.), pp. 19–30 | Article
1984 Multiple questions in English and Spanish Papers from the XIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University Park, April 1–3, 1982, Baldi, Philip (ed.), pp. 121–134 | Article