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Publication details [#8875]
Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1983. On the interaction of word-order and intonation: Some OV constructions in Spanish. In Klein-Andreu, Flora, ed. Discourse perspectives on syntax. Academic Press. pp. 117–140.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The purpose is to investigate the motives that may lead speakers to use the inverted word order OV in Spanish, and to describe some of the functions of these constructions. This is intended to be additional support, based on conversational Spanish, for the claim that word order in Spanish is controlled by discourse and pragmatic factors.