1st Edition
The Clausal Structure of Spanish A Comparative Study
By Francisco Ordonez
Copyright 2000
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work studies various aspects of word order and clause structure in Spanish that have proved problematic for syntactic theory. These aspects are explored theoretically in light of the antisymmetry approach of Kayne (1994) and empirically by examining parallel structures in related languages. For example, the author uses antisymmetry to critique the traditional understanding of post-verbal... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Framework: antisymmetry; Background: hierarchical structure and linear order; Some Inadequacies of the Symmetric View; Spec Head Complement as Universal Order; The Formulation of the LCA; LCA and its consequences; 2. The VSO/VOS Alternation in Spanish; Introduction; the VSO and VOS order in Spanish; The analysis of VSO and VOS; The asymmetries; Binding; Conclusion; 3. Focus and Post-Verbal Subjects in Romance; Introduction; Distribution of Post-verbal subjects in Italian, Catalan and French; Distribution of post-verbal subjects in Spanish; Post-verbal subjects in Neutral Phrase; Post-verbal subjects in Focus Phrase; Proposal: LPR with Post-verbal subjects; Consequences for nonarguments; Consequences for arguments; Spanish VOS order; Comparing LPR to the right adjunction alternative; Conclusion; 4. Inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Introduction; Antisymmetry and the landing of clitics; The position of the post-verbal subjects in interrogatives; V-to-C and the free inversion construction; Piedmontese; The obligatoriness of inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan; Conclusion; Appendix Left Dislocated Subjects and Pro-Drop Introduction; Empirical Evidence; Dislocated subjects. Previous accounts; person Agreement as a clitic; Conclusion; References; Index.
Biography
Francisco Ordonez
"It provides a highly stimulating discussion of many issues relating to Romance syntax and contains new, provocative analyses." -- Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Frankfurt
