Paula Kempchinsky is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa, specializing in Spanish syntax, syntactic theory and comparative Romance linguistics.

Downloadable Papers:

• “How Much Structure Does the Left Periphery Need?” 2008, poster presentation, LSRL 38
• “What Can the Subjunctive Disjoint Reference Effect Tell Us About the Subjunctive?”, Lingua 119 (2009).
• “Teasing Apart the Middle” 2006, Andolin gogoan/Homenaje a Andolin Eguzkitza
• “Romance SE as an Aspectual Element” 2004, Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages.
• “Locative Inversion, PP Topicalization and the EPP” 2002, Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected Proceedings of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages.
• “On the Position of Preposed PPs in English and Spanish” 2001, Features and Interfaces in Romance.
• “Aspect Projections and Predicate Type” 2000, Hispanic Linguistics at the Turn of the Millennium.