Francisco Ordonez

The Clausal Structure of Spanish (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Study

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135715618
• Artikelnr.: 56837452

Autorenporträt

Francisco Ordonez

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Framework: antisymmetry
Background: hierarchical structure and linear order
Some Inadequacies of the Symmetric View
Spec Head Complement as Universal Order
The Formulation of the LCA
LCA and its consequences
2. The VSO/VOS Alternation in Spanish
Introduction
the VSO and VOS order in Spanish
The analysis of VSO and VOS
The asymmetries
Binding
Conclusion
3. Focus and Post-Verbal Subjects in Romance
Introduction
Distribution of Post-verbal subjects in Italian, Catalan and French
Distribution of post-verbal subjects in Spanish
Post-verbal subjects in Neutral Phrase
Post-verbal subjects in Focus Phrase
Proposal: LPR with Post-verbal subjects
Consequences for nonarguments
Consequences for arguments
Spanish VOS order
Comparing LPR to the right adjunction alternative
Conclusion
4. Inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan
Introduction
Antisymmetry and the landing of clitics
The position of the post-verbal subjects in interrogatives
V-to-C and the free inversion construction
Piedmontese
The obligatoriness of inversion in Interrogatives in Spanish and Catalan
Conclusion
Appendix Left Dislocated Subjects and Pro-Drop Introduction
Empirical Evidence
Dislocated subjects. Previous accounts
person Agreement as a clitic
Conclusion
References
Index.