Unraveling the complexity of SE

Grant Armstrong is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on the Morphology and Syntax of Spanish and Mayan languages. He has published numerous articles on these topics in journals such as The Linguistic Review, Probus, Studies in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics and as chapter contributions to edited volumes in series' published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, and Springer.
Jonathan E. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Linguistics and of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His general research area lies in the domain of theoretical syntax, with a specific focus on Romance SE constructions, and inner aspect. His work has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, and Probus, as well as numerous contributions in volumes edited by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, among others.

Chapter 1. A guide to understanding SE constructions: where they come from and how they are connected (Grant Armstrong and Jonathan MacDonald).- Part I: Diachronic perspectives.- Chapter 2. The development of SE from Latin to Spanish and the reflexive object cycle (Matthew Maddox).- Chapter 3. Null-Subjects and se revisited: what medieval Romance varieties reveal (Anne Wolfsgruber).- Part II: Voice/little v and above.- Chapter 4. On (un)grammatical clitic sequences in impersonal se constructions (Jonathan E. MacDonald and Jeriel Melgares).- Chapter 5. Implicit agents and the Person Constraint on SE-passives (Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin).- Chapter 6. On the nature of the impersonal SE: case, interpretation and variation (Francisco Ordóñez).- Chapter 7. Personal SE with unergatives in Romanian (Monica Irimia and Virginia Hill).- Part III: Voice/little v and below.- Chapter 8. On a class of figure reflexives in Romanian: Ion se spala pe mâini 'John washes his hands' (Alexandra Cornilescu and Alexandru Nicolae).- Chapter 9. Causative SE: a transitive analysis (Grant Armstrong and Paula Kempchinsky).- Chapter 10. Light verbs and the syntactic configurations of SE (Alfredo García Pardo).- Chapter 11. The role of SE and NE in Romance verbs of directed motion. Evidence from Catalan, Italian, Aragonese and Spanish varieties (Anna Pineda).- Chapter 12. Scalar constraints on anticausative se. The aspectual hypothesis revisited (Margot Vivanco).- Part IV: A unifying perspective.- Chapter 13. Spanish se as a high and low verbalizer (David Basilico).- Index.