Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish

Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives

Editors

Andreas Dufter | Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich

Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta | Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich

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Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This volume offers a well-balanced set of articles investigating left sentence peripheries in Spanish. Some articles explore the historical evolution of left dislocation and fronting operations, while others seek to assess the extent – and the limits – of variation found between different geographical varieties and registers of the contemporary language. Moreover, the volume comprises several case studies on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and information structure, and the implications of these for pragmatic interpretation and the organization of discourse. Cross-linguistic and typological perspectives are also provided in due course in order to position the analyses developed for Spanish within a larger research context.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.214

Table of Contents

Preface

Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta | pp. 1–20

Section 1. Left Sentence Peripheries in Old Spanish

Chapter 1. Left Dislocation phenomena in Old Spanish: An examination of their structural properties

Miriam Bouzouita | pp. 23–52

Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish

Susann Fischer | pp. 53–76

Chapter 3. Left forever: Subject datives and clitic doubling in Old Spanish

Javier Elvira | pp. 77–98

Section 2. Syntactic variation in Modern Spanish

Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses  and the left periphery

Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Melvin González-Rivera | pp. 101–124

Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish

Steffen Heidinger | pp. 125–154

Chapter 6. The left periphery of Spanish comparative correlatives

Cristina Sánchez López | pp. 155–184

Chapter 7. The article at the left periphery

Silvia Serrano | pp. 185–214

Section 3. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force: Spanish matrix que at the syntax-pragmatics interface

Violeta Demonte and Olga Fernández-Soriano | pp. 217–252

Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure: A view from Spanish

María Luisa Zubizarreta | pp. 253–282

Chapter 10. Informational status and the semantics  of mood in Spanish preposed complement clauses

Martin G. Becker | pp. 283–308

Chapter 11. Fronting and irony in Spanish

M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal and Manuel Leonetti | pp. 309–342

Section 4. Spanish among the Romance languages

Chapter 12. Left periphery in discourse: Frame Units and discourse markers

Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga | pp. 345–382

Chapter 13. A comparative look at Focus Fronting  in Romance

Eva-Maria Remberger | pp. 383–418

Index | pp. 419–424

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