The Incidence of Interpolation on the Word Order of Romance Langauges
The aim of this paper is to provide a syntactic account of interpolation structures in Romance. In the introduction you are presented with a general approach: definition, scope within the Indo-European languages and prosodic aspects of this linguistic phenomenon. In section 2, the distributive prope...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1995 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:21183 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/21183 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Diachrony Syntax Word order Clitic second Diacronia Sintaxi Ordre de mots Clític en segona posició |
| Sumario: | The aim of this paper is to provide a syntactic account of interpolation structures in Romance. In the introduction you are presented with a general approach: definition, scope within the Indo-European languages and prosodic aspects of this linguistic phenomenon. In section 2, the distributive properties of clitic object pronouns with respect to the verb are examined in detail and they are exemplified with Old Spanish, Old Catalan, Modem Portuguese and Modem Galician data. This section is concluded with a hypothesis that regards interpolation as a kind of stylistic construction related to a syntactic projection that occurs between CP and IP (namely, FocusP). The existence of this maximal projection not only allows us to account for the syntactic distribution of clitic object pronouns in embedded sentences but also for the prosodic aspects involved. Section 3 is devoted to the analysis of periphrastic perfects and passives and the intervention of several linguistic items between either haber or ser and the past participle, which have generally been considered interpolation structures (cf. Andrés-Suárez (1994)). In our opinion, these constructions must be given a different analysis and, therefore, cannot be regarded as interpolation structures. |
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