Juan Romero
List of John Benjamins publications in which Juan Romero is involved.
Articles
2019 Prolegomena to the study of object relations Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?, Irimia, Monica Alexandrina and Anna Pineda (eds.), pp. 102–131 | Article
This paper argues that there is nothing “differential” in the licensing conditions of Differential Object Marking and outlines an analysis that unifies dom with dative object marking and with a broader set of “derived object”-marking configurations. We show that neither morphological nor… read more
2010 The derivation of dative alternations Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga (eds.), pp. 203–232 | Chapter
This paper argues for an updated version of the classical derivational approach to Double Object Constructions and dative constructions across languages. We show that the arguments to postulate a non-derivational approach do not hold and that, in fact, such an approach runs into unsolvable problems. read more
2002 Morphological constraints on syntactic derivations Theoretical Approaches to Universals, Alexiadou, Artemis (ed.), pp. 237–258 | Article