Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited

In this paper, we revisit two types of apparently Neuter Expletive Pronouns in Romance, namely Catalan ell, Spanish ello, EP ele, a.o., and the expletive neuter demonstratives aço, eso, esto, which have been argued in the literature to have an expressive value and to belong to the Left Periphery of...

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Autor principal:	Anna Bartra-Kaufmann
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2011
Materias:	expletive subjects discourse left periphery pronouns demonstratives ello Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:38019fcfe7534b939099cf284f788a822021-11-27T10:47:26ZRecycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited10.5565/rev/catjl.371695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/38019fcfe7534b939099cf284f788a822011-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/37https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719In this paper, we revisit two types of apparently Neuter Expletive Pronouns in Romance, namely Catalan ell, Spanish ello, EP ele, a.o., and the expletive neuter demonstratives aço, eso, esto, which have been argued in the literature to have an expressive value and to belong to the Left Periphery of the sentence. Our aim is to explore the relationship between expletive subjects and the Left Periphery in NS languages in a simple way. We base our investigations on the rich insights set up in the literature, and discuss if grammaticalisation could explain the shift from expletive subject to expressive marker. After briefly reviewing the properties of ell/ ello/ele, we show that it is unclear how they could fit into the current definition of grammaticalisation. We then review the common semantic properties of ello elements and neuter demonstratives, and argue that these elements anchor a speech act, a predication to the external situation. We explain how this property is encoded in a framework like the one of Hale & Keyser’s work. As for their syntactic properties, we claim that these elements belong to a reduced C-T area.Anna Bartra-KaufmannUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleexpletive subjectsdiscourseleft peripherypronounsdemonstrativeselloPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 10 (2011)
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spellingShingle	expletive subjects discourse left periphery pronouns demonstratives ello Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Anna Bartra-Kaufmann Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited
description	In this paper, we revisit two types of apparently Neuter Expletive Pronouns in Romance, namely Catalan ell, Spanish ello, EP ele, a.o., and the expletive neuter demonstratives aço, eso, esto, which have been argued in the literature to have an expressive value and to belong to the Left Periphery of the sentence. Our aim is to explore the relationship between expletive subjects and the Left Periphery in NS languages in a simple way. We base our investigations on the rich insights set up in the literature, and discuss if grammaticalisation could explain the shift from expletive subject to expressive marker. After briefly reviewing the properties of ell/ ello/ele, we show that it is unclear how they could fit into the current definition of grammaticalisation. We then review the common semantic properties of ello elements and neuter demonstratives, and argue that these elements anchor a speech act, a predication to the external situation. We explain how this property is encoded in a framework like the one of Hale & Keyser’s work. As for their syntactic properties, we claim that these elements belong to a reduced C-T area.
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title	Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited
title_short	Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited
title_full	Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited
title_fullStr	Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited
title_full_unstemmed	Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited
title_sort	recycled neuter expletive pronouns and the nature of the left periphery: ell and relatives revisited
publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate	2011
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Recycled Neuter Expletive Pronouns and the Nature of the Left Periphery: ell and Relatives Revisited

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