Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish : Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives.
The aim of this paper is to describe the syntax and semantics of Focus Fronting (FF) constructions in a range of Romance languages, including both regional and diachronic varieties, in order to reclassify these constructions on the basis of a common comparative ground. I shall begin with a look at s...
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Table of Contents:
- Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents ; Preface ; Introduction ; 1. From Latin to Spanish ; 2. Aspects of Modern Spanish clause structure ; 3. Syntax and its interfaces with semantics and pragmatics ; 4. Spanish and its closest relatives ; References ; Section 1. Left Sentence Peripheries in Old Spanish; Chapter 1. Left Dislocation phenomena in Old Spanish ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Structural properties of Left Dislocations in Modern Spanish ; 2.1 Category of left-dislocate and case-marking ; 2.2 Resumptive constituents.
- 2.3 Recursivity 2.4 Distribution ; 2.5 Island sensitivity ; 3. Left Dislocations in Old Spanish ; 3.1 Corpus ; 3.2 Left Dislocations relative to other word order phenomena ; 3.3 Structural properties ; 4. Conclusions ; Corpora ; References ; Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish; 1. Introduction ; 2. Properties of Stylistic Fronting ; 2.1 Clause-boundedness ; 2.2 Focus not required ; 2.3 Relativized Minimality ; 2.4 Head movement ; 2.5 The subject gap restriction ; 2.6 The subject gap restriction in null-subject languages ; 3. Previous explanations.
- 3.1 The trigger for SF synchronically 3.2 The loss of SF diachronically ; 4. Towards an explanation ; 4.1 Theoretical considerations ; 4.2 Empirical considerations ; 4.3 Feature-driven movement ; 5. Conclusion ; References ; Appendix ; Questionnaire ; Chapter 3. Left forever; 1. Pronoun redundancy: Basic synchronic data ; 2. Doubling and focus ; 3. Clitic doubling in the Middle Ages ; 4. The attraction to the left position ; 5. Clitic doubling as agreement ; 6. Concluding remarks ; References ; Medieval sources ; References ; Section 2. Syntactic variation in Modern Spanish.
- Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses and the left periphery 1. Introduction ; 2. The grammar of Spanish Predicative Verbless Clauses ; 2.1 The XP-predicate ; 2.2 The DP-subject ; 2.3 Syntactic structure ; 2.4 The information structure of Spanish Predicative Verbless Clauses ; 3. Previous syntactic accounts ; 3.1 Right-dislocated DP ; 3.2 Subject-Predicate movement ; 3.3 Two independent clauses ; 3.4 Small clause analysis ; 4. Toward a new proposal ; 5. Conclusion ; References ; Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Contrastive focus and fronting in Spanish 3. Secondary predicates and information structure ; 4. Empirical study ; 4.1 Method and setup ; 4.2 Results ; 4.3 Discussion ; 5. Conclusion ; References ; Chapter 6. The left periphery of Spanish comparative correlatives; 1. Introduction ; 2. Analysis ; 2.1 The correlative tanto ... cuanto ... ; 2.2 The role of the comparative degree heads más 'more' and menos 'less' ; 3. The left periphery ; 3.1 Focusing tanto más ; 3.2 The position of the correlative sentence ; 4. Further consequences of the proposal ; References.