Olga Fernández-Soriano

List of John Benjamins publications for which Olga Fernández-Soriano plays a role.

Titles

Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte

Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] 2017. viii, 369 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface

Edited by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The goal of this paper is to analyze the properties of (a special type of) ‘split interrogative’ (SI) constructions in Spanish. SIs are wh-questions followed by a phrase that constitutes a possible answer, the ‘tag’. The overall structure is interpreted as a yes/no question (as in what did John… read more
Mar Vanrell, Maria del and Olga Fernández-Soriano 2018 Chapter 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European SpanishFocus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 33–70 | Chapter
Spanish is generally considered a “word order language” with respect to focus marking, since the syntactic strategies used to alter the canonical order seem to depend on focus type. Thus, prosodically motivated movement is utilized for information narrow focus, and focus fronting, clefting, and… read more
Castroviejo Miró, Elena, Olga Fernández-Soriano and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez 2017 Introduction: Boundaries, phases and interfacesBoundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction
Demonte, Violeta and Olga Fernández-Soriano 2014 Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force: Spanish matrix que at the syntax-pragmatics interfaceLeft Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 217–252 | Chapter
This paper centers on certain aspects of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface. Its main contribution is that it incorporates into the wide crosslinguistic list of grammatical evidentials one type of Spanish que ‘that’, which is claimed to have evolved into this category from a complementizer.… read more
Fernández-Soriano, Olga and Amaya Mendikoetxea 2013 Non selected dative arguments in Spanish anticausative constructions: Exploring subjecthoodThe Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 3–34 | Article
This paper examines the notion of subject and subjecthood by analysing the properties of a construction found in Spanish, as well as in a variety of genetically quite different languages, in which a non-selected dative argument is added to an anticausative construction and may be interpreted as… read more
Fernández-Soriano, Olga 2009 On the nature of covert operationsRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007, Aboh, Enoch O., Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 87–108 | Article
The phenomenon analyzed in this paper is instantiated by a type of pseudocleft structure in (oral) Spanish, characterized by the fact that when the element which is actually clefted (which is also marked as focus) is an internal argument, it can ‘extend’ its focal status to the constituents… read more
Eguren, Luis and Olga Fernández-Soriano 2007 PrefaceCoreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface, Eguren, Luis and Olga Fernández-Soriano (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Preface
Demonte, Violeta and Olga Fernández-Soriano 2001 “Dequeísmo” in Spanish and the Structure and Features of CPFeatures and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras, Herschensohn, Julia, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article