1st Edition

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish

By Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo Copyright 2006
    232 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    232 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.

    Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The EPP and the Notion of the Pole Chapter 3: Markedness Constraints on Syntactic Structure Chapter 4: Word order and Information Structure Chapter 5: Wh-Interrogatives and Word Order

    Biography

    Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo is Associate professor of linguistics at the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City.