New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar
Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5] 2015. vi, 326 pp.
Manuel Leonetti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manuel Leonetti plays a role.
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Subjects Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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2015. On word order in Spanish copular sentences. New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 203–236
This paper deals with the interaction between the ser/estar distinction and word
order. In Spanish the VSX order imposes a thetic, wide focus interpretation
(Leonetti, 2014a). This word order pattern is compatible with estar predication.
In contrast, ser predication is typically excluded with VSX… read more | Article
2015. Ser and estar: Outstanding questions. New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar, Pérez-Jiménez, Isabel, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina (eds.), pp. 1–20
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2014. Chapter 11. Fronting and irony in Spanish. Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives, Dufter, Andreas and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), pp. 309–342
This paper aims at explaining why irony is particularly salient in a certain kind of Spanish sentences that involve fronting of a constituent. This fact should be totally unexpected if one assumes – as we do – that irony is mainly a contextual phenomenon (Wilson & Sperber 1992 et passim). An… read more | Chapter
2014. Spanish VSX. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012, Lahousse, Karen and Stefania Marzo (eds.), pp. 37–64
This paper addresses the question of why VSX word order is possible in Spanish but excluded in other Romance languages (Catalan and Italian). It aims at offering an overview of the properties of VSX in Spanish, as well as explaining how the availability of VSX depends on interface requirements on… read more | Article
2013. Information structure and the distribution of Spanish bare plurals. New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond, Kabatek, Johannes and Albert Wall (eds.), pp. 121–156
Suñer’s (1982) Naked Noun Constraint explains the ban on bare nouns in preverbal subject position in Spanish as the result of the incompatibility between bare nouns and Topic positions. In this paper this proposal is assumed and placed inside a general hypothesis that derives the distributional… read more | Article
2009. Fronting and verum focus in Spanish. Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Dufter, Andreas and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 155–204
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2008. Definiteness effect and the role of the coda in existential constructions. Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management, Høeg Müller, Henrik and Alex Klinge (eds.), pp. 131–162
The Definiteness Effect (DE) in existential contexts appears as a robust constraint in some languages (Spanish) while it seems to be absent in others (Italian, Catalan). However, a closer inspection of Italian and Catalan data shows that the DE has some presence in those languages as well, when the… read more | Article
2004. 3. The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference. Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish, Márquez Reiter, Rosina and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 35 ff.
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2004. Crítica de Haverkate (2002): The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood. Spanish in Context 1:1, pp. 149–152
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1998. A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Property Predification Restriction. Current Issues in Relevance Theory, Rouchota, Villy and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 141 ff.
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