The Information Structure of Predicate Doubling
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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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2022 |
| País: | Perú |
| Recursos: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Repositório: | Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/26334 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/26334 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Doblado de predicados Estructura informativa Foco Tópico contrastivo Predicate doubling Informative structure Focus Contrastive topic |
| Resumo: | 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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