Indefinite Objects

Luis Lopez draws upon recent developments in both syntax and semantics to provide an interesting and novel account of differential object marking and scope phenomena. This work includes insightful discussion of innovations in the analysis of indefinites and the semantics of specificity, as well as an in depth study of a broad range of data. The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the intricacies of Spanish syntax and the syntax/semantics interface more generally. -- Molly Diesing, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University This is a very welcome contribution to an ever fascinating topic. It solves old but also new syntactic and semantic puzzles on Spanish indefinite object marking. It proposes an innovative theory on the mapping from syntactic position to interpretation via type-shifting, which is able to explain issues of morphological marking, scrambling, and interpretations of indefinites cross-linguistically. -- Helen de Hoop, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen Luis Lopez's book is masterful. Lucidly written, creative, and empirically careful, this work will set the standard for research on differential object marking and semantic incorporation for some time to come. -- Sandra Chung, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz