Margarita Suñer
Professor (Emerita)
(PhD, Indiana University, 1973)
Department of Linguistics, ms24@cornell.edu
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Research
Theoretical and comparative syntax as it bears on mental representations is my
main interest.
For the last few years, I have centered my research on different aspects of
clausal structure: the syntax and
semantics of indirect questions, restrictive relative clauses, object shift,
direct quotes, clitic left dislocations
with and without epithets, and the positions of the verb and of the lexical
preverbal subject.
I am also interested in a) the characterization of different dialects/language
s through syntactic correlates, and
b) word order possibilities and their semantic and pragmatic implications.
Moreover, I have used linguistic principles and descriptions to co-author a
book meant both for
language teachers and advanced language learners of Spanish.
Graduate Fields Represented: Linguistics, Romance Studies, Latin American Studies
Selected Publications
Suñer, M and L. D. King (2007).
Gramática española: An
álisis lingüístico y práctica. McGraw-Hill. 3rd edition (revised).
Suñer, M. (2006).
Left Dislocations with and without Epithets. Probus
18.1:127-157.
Suñer, M. (2003). Aafke Hulk and Jean-Yves Pollock (eds.),
Subject
inversion in Romance and the theory of Universal Grammar (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax).
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Journal of Linguistics 39: 209-213 (Review).
Suñer, M. (2003). The Lexical Preverbal Subject in a Romance Null Subject Language: Where Art Thou?,
A Romance Perspective in Language Knowledge and Use: Selected Papers
from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19-22 April 2001, eds.
Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño, Luis López, and Richard Cameron. John Benjamins, 2003: 341-357.
Suñer, M. (2001). The Puzzle of Restrictive Relative Clauses with Conjoined DP
Antecedents. In J. Herschensohn, E. Mallén and K. Zagona (eds.),
Features and Interfaces
in Spanish and French: Essays in Honor of Heles Contreras. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, 267-278.
Suñer, M. (2000). Some Thoughts on "que": Description, Theory, and L2.
Hispania 83: 867-876.
Suñer, M. (2000). The Syntax of Direct Quotes with Special Reference to Spanish
and English.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18: 525-578.
Suñer, M. (2000). Object-shift: Comparing a Romance Language to Germanic.
Probus
12: 261-289.
Suñer, M. (1998). Resumptive restrictive relative clauses: A crosslinguistic
perspective.
Language, 74, 335-364.
Suñer, M. (1995). Negative elements, island effects and resumptive
'no.'
The Linguistic Review, 12, 233-273.
Suñer, M. (1994). Verb movement and the licensing of argumental
wh-phrases in Spanish.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 12,
335-372.
Suñer, M. (1993). About indirect questions and semi-questions.
Linguistics and Philosophy, 16, 45-77.
Suñer, M. (1992). Subject clitics in the Northern Italian
vernaculars and the matching hypothesis.
Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory, 10,
641-672.
Suñer, M. (1988). The role of agreement in clitic-doubled
constructions.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6, 391-434.
