Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish

Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives

Editors

Andreas Dufter

| Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich

Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

| Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich

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Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This volume offers a well-balanced set of articles investigating left sentence peripheries in Spanish. Some articles explore the historical evolution of left dislocation and fronting operations, while others seek to assess the extent – and the limits – of variation found between different geographical varieties and registers of the contemporary language. Moreover, the volume comprises several case studies on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and information structure, and the implications of these for pragmatic interpretation and the organization of discourse. Cross-linguistic and typological perspectives are also provided in due course in order to position the analyses developed for Spanish within a larger research context.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.214

Table of Contents

Preface Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta	vii–viii
Introduction Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta	1–20
Section 1. Left Sentence Peripheries in Old Spanish
Chapter 1. Left Dislocation phenomena in Old Spanish: An examination of their structural properties Miriam Bouzouita	23–52
Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish Susann Fischer	53–76
Chapter 3. Left forever: Subject datives and clitic doubling in Old Spanish Javier Elvira	77–98
Section 2. Syntactic variation in Modern Spanish
Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses  and the left periphery Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Melvin González-Rivera	101–124
Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish Steffen Heidinger	125–154
Chapter 6. The left periphery of Spanish comparative correlatives Cristina Sánchez López	155–184
Chapter 7. The article at the left periphery Silvia Serrano	185–214
Section 3. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force: Spanish matrix que at the syntax-pragmatics interface Violeta Demonte and Olga Fernández-Soriano	217–252
Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure: A view from Spanish María Luisa Zubizarreta	253–282
Chapter 10. Informational status and the semantics  of mood in Spanish preposed complement clauses Martin G. Becker	283–308
Chapter 11. Fronting and irony in Spanish M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal and Manuel Leonetti	309–342
Section 4. Spanish among the Romance languages
Chapter 12. Left periphery in discourse: Frame Units and discourse markers Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga	345–382
Chapter 13. A comparative look at Focus Fronting  in Romance Eva-Maria Remberger	383–418
Index	419–424