Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] 2018. viii, 391 pp.
Marco García García
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marco García García plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing
Edited by Patrick Brandt and Marco García García
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 8. NP exclamatives and focus Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 229–252 | Chapter
This paper makes a contribution to the study of Spanish noun phrase (NP) exclamatives, such as ¡Las tonterías que dicen! ‘The silly things they say!’. The main purpose is to explore the relation between NP exclamatives and the notion of focus. I compare NP exclamatives with canonical focus-marking… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: Core issues of focus realization in Romance Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Chapter
Despite numerous theoretical approaches and empirical analyses, it is not entirely clear how different focus types and constructions are realized and interpreted in individual Romance languages. Due to the complexity of this linguistic area, an interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approach seems… read more
2010 Trans-duction Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article