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Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure By Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure by Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo

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Investigates a number of word order phenomenon in Spanish, concentrating on the language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement. This book shows that the word order results from the interaction between the Extended Projection Principle and structural markedness considerations.

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure Summary

Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish by Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo

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.

About Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo

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

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 The Study of Word Order General Overview Language-Internal Word Order Variation 1.2 Optimality Theory The Architecture of OT Optimality Theoretic Syntax 1.3 Spanish Basic Assumptions A Note about the Data 2. The EPP and the Notion of the Pole 2.1 Pole vs. [Spec I] Extended Projections Minimal Extended Projections A Redefinition of the EPP 2.2 Pole vs. Subject Topicalization and Wh-Movement in Ellipsis Characterizing the Pole 2.3 Preliminary Evidence for the Pole in Spanish The Pole as the Remnant of Ellipsis Negation and the Pole in Spanish 2.4 Conclusions 3. Markedness Constraints on Syntactic Structure 3.1 Unmarked Word Order in Spanish 3.2 Markedness and Syntactic Structure The Pole and the Thematic Hierarchy Harmonic Alignment The Pole Hierarchy 3.3 An OT Analysis Based on Markedness Structural Markedness and Unmarked Word Order Alternative Analyses 3.4 Other Constructions 3.5 Some Typological Predictions 3.6 Conclusions 4. Word Order and Information Structure 4.1 Perturbations of the Unmarked Word Order 4.2 Focus Focus in Spanish Subject Presentational Foci Sentence Focus 4.3 Topicalization Topicalization and the Pole Vacuous Structure Topic and Focus Presentational Clauses VOS Clauses Default Topics Multiple Topics 4.4 Conclusions 5. Wh-Interrogatives and Word Order 5.1 Wh-Interrogatives in Spanish 5.2 Deriving Wh-Movement 5.3 Matrix Interrogatives in Mexican Spanish Basics of the Analysis Against Inversion Analyses Interrogative Wh-Operators in the Pole 5.4 Embedded Interrogatives 5.5 Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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NPB9780415976077
9780415976077
0415976073
Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish by Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo
Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005-12-09
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