@inbook{52e092cb3de048c786a27afa889f5f01,
title = "Spanish impersonal se in control infinitivals and the ungrammaticality of se se sequences",
abstract = "In this paper, we offer an analysis of impersonal se (Impse) constructions in control infinitivals. We claim that se itself spells out the valued version of the [uD] feature that Holmberg (2010) and Roberts (2010) propose is a property of T in consistent null subject languages. As a corollary, we link Impse constructions to the consistent null subject status of a language (in the spirit of Belletti, 1982). Moreover, we claim that in Impse constructions there is a projected null external argument (prose) interpreted as non-referential because of the valued version of Holmberg's [uD] feature in T that se spells out. We also argue that ungrammatical sequences of Impse and other se result from the featural deficiency of prose; specifically, it lacks a specification for number.",
keywords = "Control infinitives, Feature deficiency, Romance impersonal se, Spanish",
author = "MacDonald, {Jonathan E.} and Almike V{\~A}izquez-Lozares",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 John Benjamins Publishing Company. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1075/ihll.33.7mac",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "135--155",
editor = "Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau",
booktitle = "East and West of The Pentacrest Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky",
address = "Netherlands",
}