1. Introduction
1.1 Preliminaries: Word Order, Linguistic Meaning, and Human Choice
1.2 Starting Point
1.3 Terminological Clarifications: Participants and Events
1.4 William Diver and the Columbia School of Linguistics
1.5 Traditional Non-Equivalents: Argument Structure
1.6 Data and Corpus
1.7 Book Structure
2. State of the Art: A Critical Review of Relevant Studies
2.1 Introduction
2.2 General Perspectives: All Languages
2.3 Specific Perspectives: Spanish
2.4 Universal vs. Language-Specific Approaches
2.5 The Hybrid Pragmatically Motivated Approach
2.6 Modalities of Attention and Choice of Word Order
3. The System of Participant Attentionworthiness: Two Participants, Both Realized
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Mechanism of the System
3.3 Data and Validation Procedures
3.4 The Simple PEP Word Order: Type A
3.5 The Simple PEP Word Order: Type B
3.6 Special Considerations: Complex PEP
4. The System of Participant Attentionworthiness: Two Participants, One Realized
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Data and Validation Procedures
4.3 The E P≠ Word Order
4.4 The P≠ E Word Order
5. The System of Event Attentionworthiness – Phase 1: One Participant
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Data and Validation Procedures
5.3 The E P= Word Order
5.4 The P= E Word Order
6. The System of Event Attentionworthiness – Phase 2: Two Participants
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Formation of Signals: EPP and PPE as avoidance of PEP
6.3 Data and Validation Procedures
6.4 The EPP Word Order
6.5 The PPE Word Order
6.6 Quantitative Evidence for EPP and PPE
7. Theory
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Traditional Categories
7.3 Typological Considerations
7.4 Language-Specific vs. Universal Features
8. Summary of the Analysis
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Grammatical Systems
8.3 New Communicative Rationale
8.4 Co-Reference and Grammatical Relations
8.5 Oppositions of Substance and Oppositions of Value
8.6 Semantic Categorization and Typological Considerations
8.7 Relation to Literary Analysis
8.8 Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Eduardo Ho-Fernández is Managing Member for Hispania Research and has previously been a faculty member in Spanish at the City College of New York, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics (2020) from the City University of New York and was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow with the Columbia School Linguistic Society in New York. He has also served as Chair of the University Seminar on Columbia School Linguistics.
