Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study

451 p.

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Autor: Alves Castro, María Angeles
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:synchronic linguistics
syntax
syntatic analysis
lingüística sincrónica
sintáxis
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spelling Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative studyAlves Castro, María Angelessynchronic linguisticssyntaxsyntatic analysislingüística sincrónicasintáxis451 p.This thesis focuses on EX from DP, a construction in which a PP or clausal modifier appears separate from the head noun it modifies, typically in sentence-final position.This construction incarnates one of the long-standing puzzles of linguistic theory: discontinuity. The present study tries to find answers to questions concerning the motivation of EX, and its syntactic derivation in a minimalist setting. The construction is approached from a perspective which is different from that adopted in previous work and innovative in two fundamental respects. First, the focus is on the interaction of EX with other syntactic phenomena. Second, two languages are studied in parallel: English and Spanish. This aspect of the dissertation is important because EX in Spanish is recurrently absent from the syntactic discussion.Adopting an analysis of EX in terms of rightward movement, the first part of the discussion centers on the interaction of this operation with topicalization, focalization (including wh-movement) and subject raising. The aim pursued in this part is two-fold: (i) to determine the syntactic contexts in which EX can apply and (ii) to identify the trigger of the operation (in particular, the role played by focus). The discussion then turns to the interaction of EX with five ellipsis phenomena: VP-Ellipsis, pseudogapping, gapping, stripping and sluicing. This part is aimed at finding information concerning the hierarchical position of the extraposed constituent. Given the role played by focus in most of the ellipsis constructions just enumerated, interesting information is also gathered concerning the motivation of EX. Some of the results obtained from the discussion in this dissertation are (i) that EX is restricted to the vP/VP domain, contrary to what standard accounts maintain; (ii) that EX cannot be triggered by a focus feature in the general case; and that EX in Spanish is not only productive but also very similar to EX in English.Valmala Elguea, VidalFilología Inglesa y Alemana;;Ingeles eta Aleman Filologia2016201620152015info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/18470reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess(c)2015 MARIA ANGELES ALVES CASTROoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/184702026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
spellingShingle Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
Alves Castro, María Angeles
synchronic linguistics
syntax
syntatic analysis
lingüística sincrónica
sintáxis
title_short Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
title_full Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
title_fullStr Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
title_full_unstemmed Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
title_sort Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alves Castro, María Angeles
author Alves Castro, María Angeles
author_facet Alves Castro, María Angeles
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Valmala Elguea, Vidal
Filología Inglesa y Alemana;;Ingeles eta Aleman Filologia
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv synchronic linguistics
syntax
syntatic analysis
lingüística sincrónica
sintáxis
topic synchronic linguistics
syntax
syntatic analysis
lingüística sincrónica
sintáxis
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