Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: In this article it is claimed that in Old Spanish the discourse-sensitive field is exclusively the preverbal one.Focusing on object preposing, it is shown that the object can: (i) either be linked to a topic reading (England 1980(England , 1983;;Danford 2002); or (ii) an information focus reading (cf.Cruschina and Sitaridou 2011) -the latter only available as the rightmost element in Modern Spanish (cf.Zubizarreta 1998, inter alios); or (iii) a contrastive focus reading; or (iv) verum focus reading (cf.Leonetti & Escandell-Vidal 2009).Given all these different discourse readings which are linearized as verb second syntax, the testing hypothesis is that the verb second orders are an epiphenomenon of the organisation of information structure (cf.Wanner 1989;
Source: Catalan Journal of Linguistics
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.36
Author: Ioanna Sitaridou
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1519556362