The Syntax-Information Structure Interface Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician
It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and debate surrounding the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of null-subject languages. The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverbal s...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Germany
De Gruyter
2014
De Gruyter Mouton De Gruyter, Inc |
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| Edice: | Interface Explorations [IE] |
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| ISBN: | 9781614512059, 1614512051, 9781614512714, 161451271X, 1501500309, 9781501500305 |
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- Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 A brief socio-linguistic history of Galician -- 1.2 The sociolinguistic situation in Galicia -- 1.2.1 Heritage-speaker bilingualism in Galicia -- 1.2.2 Self-reported language competence ratings -- 1.3 Interface instability in bilinguals -- 1.4 Syntactic framework - assumptions -- 2 The interaction between syntax and information structure -- 2.1 Argument vs. Non-argument positions in syntax -- 2.2 Syntactic tests for arguments and non-arguments -- 2.3 The analysis of subjects as non-arguments in Spanish -- 2.4 Analyses of Spanish preverbal subjects as canonical arguments -- 2.5 The debate on subjects in European Portuguese -- 2.5.1 Analysis of EP subjects as non-arguments -- 2.5.2 Analyses of EP preverbal subjects as canonical arguments -- 2.6 Taking stock of preverbal subject analyses -- 2.7 Preverbal subjects in Galician -- 2.8 Syntactic structures in context -- 2.8.1 When syntax meets discourse -- 2.8.2 Defining Information Structure -- 2.8.3 Definitions of Topic/Theme -- 2.8.4 Definitions of Focus/Rheme -- 2.9 Syntactic accounts of the syntax-information structure interface -- 2.9.1 Casielles (2004) -- 2.9.2 The Interface and Phases -- 2.9.3 López's (2009) interface model -- 2.10 Establishing clausal structure in Galician -- 2.11 Summary -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Preliminary concerns -- 3.2 Participants: Tasks 1 and 2 -- 3.2.1 Participant variables -- 3.2.2 Procedures: Tasks 1 and 2 -- 3.3 Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task -- 3.3.1 Condition A -- 3.3.2 Condition B -- 3.3.3 Condition C -- 3.3.4 Condition D -- 3.3.5 Condition E -- 3.3.6 Condition F -- 3.3.7 Condition G -- 3.4 Task 2: Word Order Preference Task -- 3.4.1 Condition A -- 3.4.2 Condition B -- 3.4.3 Condition C -- 3.4.4 Condition D -- 3.4.5 Condition E -- 3.4.6 Condition F
- 7.2 Condition B: Discourse-old subject (subordination) -- 7.3 Condition C: Discourse-old object (subordination) -- 7.4 Condition D: Discourse-old subject (coordination) -- 7.5 Condition E: Discourse-old object (coordination) -- 7.6 Condition F: Subject narrow-focus (rheme) -- 7.7 Condition G: Object narrow-focus (rheme) -- 8 Appendix C. Task 2: Word order preference task -- 8.1 Instructions and Practice Items -- 8.2 Contexto 1: Universidade -- 8.3 Contexto 2: A entrevista sobre o restaurante -- 8.4 Contexto 3: Unha mudanza de pesadelo -- 8.5 Contexto 4: Unha noite de festa -- 8.6 Contexto 5: O escándalo -- 8.7 Contexto 6: A tenda de animais -- 9 APPENDIX D. Task 3: Recorded field interview -- 9.1 Interview A: Questions for young participants -- 9.2 Interview B: Questions for older participants -- 10 Appendix E. Follow-up WPT: for narrow-focus in Task 2 -- 10.1 Cuestionario lingüístico -- 10.2 Condition 1: Subject narrow focus (SV vs. VS) -- 10.3 Condition 2: Object narrow focus (SVO vs. VSO) -- 10.4 Condition 3: Object narrow focus (SVO vs. VOS) -- 10.5 Condition 4: Object narrow focus (VSO vs. VOS) -- References
- 3.4.7 Summary of quantitative experimental tasks -- 3.5 Task 3: Recorded field interview -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative measures -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Task 1 -- 4.2.1 Condition A -- 4.2.2 Condition B -- 4.2.3 Condition C -- 4.2.4 Condition D -- 4.2.5 Condition E -- 4.2.6 Condition F -- 4.2.7 Condition G -- 4.2.8 Summary of Task 1 discourse conditions -- 4.3 Task 2 -- 4.3.1 Condition A -- 4.3.2 Condition B -- 4.3.3 Condition C -- 4.3.4 Condition D -- 4.3.5 Condition E -- 4.3.6 Condition G -- 4.3.7 Task 2 by language dominance -- 4.3.8 Task 2 statistical results by gender -- 4.3.9 Task Two Summary -- 4.4 Follow-up task for Task 2 -- 4.5 Task 3 results -- 4.6 Summary and discussion: quantitative measures -- 4.6.1 Discussion -- 4.6.2 Subject CLLD within the SDRT notions of Subordination and Continuation -- 4.6.3 A note on CLLD response ratings -- 4.7 Final methodological considerations -- 5 Toward a Left-peripheral Syntactic Analysis of Galician -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Main-clause cliticization in Galician -- 5.2.1 A brief excursus on F -- 5.2.2 Fernández-Rubiera's (2009) syntactic account of clitic directionality in WIR -- 5.3 Main clause preverbal elements in Galician -- 5.4 Extending the left periphery: subordinate clause phenomena in Galician -- 5.5 Extending the left-periphery: recomplementation -- 5.5.1 Recomplementation in Galician -- 5.5.2 Jussive/optative QUE (che2) -- 5.6 Subject positions in Galician -- 5.7 Affective phrases and preverbal subjects in Galician -- 5.8 Subject positions and information structure in López (2009) -- 5.9 The A vs. A debate revisited -- 5.10 Summary -- 5.11 Concluding remarks -- 6 Appendix A. Linguistic questionnaire for initial tasks -- 7 Appendix B. Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task -- 7.1 Condition A: Thetic contexts
- 10. Appendix E. Follow-up WPT: for narrow-focus in Task 2
- 8. Appendix C. Task 2: Word order preference task
- 3. Methodology
- 5. Toward a Left-peripheral Syntactic Analysis of Galician
- Index
- 4. Statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative measures
- 7. Appendix B. Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task
- 2. The interaction between syntax and information structure
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- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- 9. APPENDIX D. Task 3: Recorded field interview
- References
- 1. Introduction
- Frontmatter --
- Preface
- 6. Appendix A. Linguistic questionnaire for initial tasks