The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language

Luis H. González is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Wake Forest University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of research are semantic roles, case, reflexivization, clitic doubling, differential object marking, dichotomies in languages, Spanish linguistics, and second language learning. He is the co-author of one book and the author of three other books: Gramática para la composición. 2016. 3rd ed. Washington: Georgetown University Press. A Spanish advanced grammar and writing textbook, now in its third edition. Co-authored with M. Stanley Whitley. Cómo entender y cómo enseñar por y para. 2020. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/9780367688295 Four Dichotomies in Spanish: Adjective Position, Adjectival Clauses, Ser/Estar, and Preterite/Imperfect. 2021. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/9780367517281 The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker. 2021. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/9780367347819

1. How subject, direct object, and indirect object really work 2. Perfect auxiliary selection using verber and verbed 3. Solving the transitivity paradox 4. There are verberless sentences, but no subjectless ones 5. The case for the true gustar (piacere) verbs in Spanish 6. A brief comparison with some other theories of linking (argument realization)