Word order and information structure in Old Spanish

In this article it is claimed that in Old Spanish the discourse-sensitive field is exclusively the preverbal one. Focusing on object preposing, it is shown that the object can: (i) either be linked to a topic reading (England 1980, 1983; Danford 2002); or (ii) an information focus reading (cf. Crusc...

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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2011
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:cfe979f0087b401f9b0d061f9fd6cfde2021-11-27T10:47:27ZWord order and information structure in Old Spanish10.5565/rev/catjl.361695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/cfe979f0087b401f9b0d061f9fd6cfde2011-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/36https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719In this article it is claimed that in Old Spanish the discourse-sensitive field is exclusively the preverbal one. Focusing on object preposing, it is shown that the object can: (i) either be linked to a topic reading (England 1980, 1983; Danford 2002); or (ii) an information focus reading (cf. Cruschina and Sitaridou 2011) –the latter only available as the rightmost element in Modern Spanish (cf. Zubizarreta 1998, inter alios); or (iii) a contrastive focus reading; or (iv) verum focus reading (cf. Leonetti & Escandell-Vidal 2009). Given all these different discourse readings which are linearized as verb second syntax, the testing hypothesis is that the verb second orders are an epiphenomenon of the organisation of information structure (cf. Wanner 1989; Bossong 2003; Sitaridou 2006, 2011 pace Fontana 1993; Cho 1997; Danford 2002; Fernández Ordóñez 2009; Molina 2010) rather than structural as in the Germanic languages.Ioanna SitaridouUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleOld SpanishTopicalisationFocus FrontingOVV2Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 10 (2011)
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language CA
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topic Old Spanish
Topicalisation
Focus Fronting
OV
V2
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Old Spanish
Topicalisation
Focus Fronting
OV
V2
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Ioanna Sitaridou
Word order and information structure in Old Spanish
description In this article it is claimed that in Old Spanish the discourse-sensitive field is exclusively the preverbal one. Focusing on object preposing, it is shown that the object can: (i) either be linked to a topic reading (England 1980, 1983; Danford 2002); or (ii) an information focus reading (cf. Cruschina and Sitaridou 2011) –the latter only available as the rightmost element in Modern Spanish (cf. Zubizarreta 1998, inter alios); or (iii) a contrastive focus reading; or (iv) verum focus reading (cf. Leonetti & Escandell-Vidal 2009). Given all these different discourse readings which are linearized as verb second syntax, the testing hypothesis is that the verb second orders are an epiphenomenon of the organisation of information structure (cf. Wanner 1989; Bossong 2003; Sitaridou 2006, 2011 pace Fontana 1993; Cho 1997; Danford 2002; Fernández Ordóñez 2009; Molina 2010) rather than structural as in the Germanic languages.
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title_short Word order and information structure in Old Spanish
title_full Word order and information structure in Old Spanish
title_fullStr Word order and information structure in Old Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Word order and information structure in Old Spanish
title_sort word order and information structure in old spanish
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