La estructura informativa del doblado de predicados
In this paper we analyze the information structure of predicate doubling in Rioplatense Spanish (e.g., Leer, leyó ‘as for reading, she/he read’). We propose that in this construction the dislocated predicate functions as a contrastive topic in the sense of Büring (2003), that is, it evokes a set of...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Perú |
| Institution: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Repository: | PUCP-Institucional |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/193436 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/26334/24824 https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/193436 https://doi.org/10.18800/lexis.202202.003 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Predicate doubling Informative structure Focus Contrastive topic Doblado de predicados Estructura informativa Foco tópico contrastivo https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.02.06 |
| Summary: | In this paper we analyze the information structure of predicate doubling in Rioplatense Spanish (e.g., Leer, leyó ‘as for reading, she/he read’). We propose that in this construction the dislocated predicate functions as a contrastive topic in the sense of Büring (2003), that is, it evokes a set of alternative questions with which it contrasts. We argue that this characterization explains the “continuation effect” that predicate doubling exhibits, i.e., the fact that a predicate doubling sentence suggests a potential continuation that involves another predicate. Moreover, we show that this analysis correctly predicts the distribution of predicate doubling in embedding contexts. |
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