{"title":"Argument and adjunct coordination in Spanish *","authors":"Michael Wilson, Rong Yin","doi":"10.4324/9781003091790-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003091790-3","url":null,"abstract":"Spanish displays two ways of coordinating con-PPs: for argument con-PPs, prepositions must be repeated; for instrumental con-PPs, P-repetition is optional. To explain this fact, we first argue coordination operates on ⟨s, t⟩ constituents. Next, we argue instrumental con-PPs contain multiple functional projections, while argument con-PPs have only one. Coordination of the lower projection results in the P-less coordination, with coordination of the higher projection out because it is of the wrong type. Instead, coordination of vPs results in P-repetition: the second conjunct undergoes Gapping, the contrasted term moving from the ellipsis site. Since pied-piping is obligatory in Spanish, the P moves with the contrasted term, resulting in P-repetition. Only vP coordination is available for argument con-PPs, resulting in obligatory P-repetition.","PeriodicalId":382820,"journal":{"name":"Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond","volume":"462 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125812757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}