Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives
Edited by Malte Rosemeyer
Special issue of Functions of Language 29:1 (2022) v, 141 pp.
Malte Rosemeyer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Malte Rosemeyer plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Auxiliary Selection in Spanish: Gradience, gradualness, and conservation
Malte Rosemeyer
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 155] 2014. xix, 313 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 9. Syntactic priming and individual preferences: A corpus-based analysis Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches, Kopf, Kristin and Thilo Weber (eds.), pp. 260–283 | Chapter
This paper analyses the relation between syntactic priming/persistence and individual preferences in the variation between the two forms of the Spanish past subjunctive (-ra vs -se). The analysis finds that the probability of repetition of one of these variants is governed by an interaction… read more
2022 Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish: A diachronic probabilistic grammar account Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:2, pp. 194–240 | Article
This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que ‘that’). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a., Girón 2005), so far no exhaustive morphosyntactic… read more
2022 Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives, Rosemeyer, Malte (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction
2022 Anteriors and resultatives in Old Spanish From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates, Garachana Camarero, Mar, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Chapter
This paper proposes a quantitative analysis of the opposition between the Old Spanish intransitive constructions aver (‘have’) + participle and ser (‘be’) + participle. It is misleading to characterise this opposition as auxiliary selection in a strict sense because aver and ser are not… read more
2022 How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives, Rosemeyer, Malte (ed.), pp. 116–141 | Article
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to… read more
2022 How alternatives are created: Specialized background knowledge affects the interpretation of clefts in discourse When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 115–146 | Chapter
Standard theories of focus expressed by cleft structures, for instance (Beaver & Clark 2008; Krifka 2007), assume that the motivation for the use of focus is discourse relevance: focus establishes an answer to the question under discussion (Roberts 2004: 216). This account, however, lacks a theory… read more
2017 The road to auxiliariness revisited: The grammaticalization of finish anteriors in Spanish Diachronica 34:4, pp. 516–558 | Article
Auxiliary verbs are known to grammaticalize from lexical verbs, but how do lexical verbs acquire verbal complements to begin with? This article provides an account of the semantic and pragmatic basis of grammaticalization of the Spanish anterior (‘perfect’) [acabar + de + infinitive] from a… read more
2013 Tornar and volver: The interplay of frequency and semantics in compound tense auxiliary selection in Medieval and Classical Spanish Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers, Gelderen, Elly van, Jóhanna Barðdal and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 435–458 | Article
This paper examines how the interplay of frequency and semantics may have influenced the directionality of the change of the compound tense auxiliary system in Spanish, taking the near-synonymous verbs tornar and volver (‘to return’) in the 16th century as examples. There is a significant contrast… read more