Cartography and Explanatory Adequacy

Ángel J. Gallego, Associate Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Dennis Ott, IKERBASQUE Research Fellow, University of the Basque Country

Ángel J. Gallego is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology and a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He works in the areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, with a focus on what syntactic phenomena such as locality, phase structure, and transformations can reveal about the Language Faculty. He is the author of The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects (OUP, 2019) and co-editor, with Roberta D'Alessandro and Irene Franco, of The Verbal Domain (OUP, 2017).


Dennis Ott is an IKERBASQUE research fellow at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, having previously held positions at the University of Groningen, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Ottawa. His research explores the formal principles behind the syntax of natural languages, and how the mental grammar behind these principles interfaces with systems of interpretation and articulation. He is the co-editor, with Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, of Parameters of Predicate Fronting (OUP, 2021).

1. Introduction, Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott
2. Complementizers, word order, and a non-cartographic approach to the CP domain, Julia Bacskai-Atkari
3. A quasi-cartographic approach to Spanish auxiliaries, Ignacio Bosque
4. Externalization and meaningless movement, Guglielmo Cinque
5. Semantic principles of adverbial distribution, Thomas Ernst
6. Wh-distributives in Basque, Ricardo Etxepare
7. The syntactic nature of focus, Aritz Irurtzun
8. Focus structure and assertion in relative clauses: Evidence from Spanish, Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal
9. On the status of criterial markers in the left periphery of the clause, Luigi Rizzi
10. Focalization in-situ vs focus projection: Focused topics, focused questions, focused heads, and other challenges, Vieri Samek-Lodovici
11. Cartographic 'explanations' need explanations themselves: Relations to the rescue, Volker Struckmeier