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Línies d’investigació / Research interests

Syntactic theory / Morphology / Lexical semantics / Argument structure / Roots / Idioms & allosemy

Publicacions recents / Recent publications

Merino, Enrique (in press). ‘(Im)possible Idioms in a Minimalist Theory of Argument Structure: Insights from Spanish’, in Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42).

Merino, Enrique (in press). Mandarin gěi as an argument introducer: Thematic and expletive uses. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55).

Merino, Enrique (in press). The Flavors-of-v Hypothesis and Basque Lexical Causatives. In İleri, Muhammed, Chun-Hung Shih, and Wesley Lincoln (eds.): Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 31.1: Proceedings of PLC 48 (PWPL 31.1).

Comunicacions / Presentations

“Internally caused change-of-state verbs in transitivity alternations.” Talk at the International Argument Alternation Workshop, Kobe Univerisity, Kobe (Japan), July 16-17.

“Mandarin gěi as an argument introducer: Thematic and expletive uses.” Talk at the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55), Yale University, New Haven, October 17-18.

2024

“Against treating Voice-bundling as a parameter: Evidence from Basque causatives.” Talk alternate at the 33rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, May 15-17.

(Im)possible idioms in a minimalist theory of argument structure: Insights from Spanish.” Poster presentation at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), University of California, Berkely, April 12-14.

“Flavored v heads? The challenging case of Basque lexical causatives.” Paper presented at the 48th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 48), University of Pennsylvania, March 16-17.

“Reassessing the limits of idiomaticity: A study of dative DPs in Spanish idioms.” Poster presentation at the 49th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG49), IUSS Pavia, February 22-23.

Tesi de Màster / M.A. Thesis

Argument realization. Evidence form Spanish Psych Predicates. University of Crete, 2020. Supervised by Elena Anagnostopoulou.