Peter Herbeck
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter Herbeck is
involved.
Title
Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino
Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read moreArticles
We analyze the substitution of the simple past by the periphrastic go-past in spoken Valencian Catalan. Corpus data show that this substitution is especially prominent in 1/3sg forms which are at the same time the least morphologically transparent ones. From this observation, we derive a… read more In this paper, I present a corpus study of adjunct infinitives in spoken Spanish, investigating null and overt subjects with respect to their control properties. I provide quantitative as well as qualitative data which show that (i) some instances of (null) subjects in adjunct infinitives do not… read more Several types of infinitives in Spanish, Italian, and Catalan can have overt nominative subjects. These elements are morphologically pronominal although they are syntactically anaphoric in Obligatory Control contexts and pronominal in Nonobligatory Control contexts. The data will be taken as… read more 
