Functional Approaches to Spanish Syntax: Lexical Semantics, Discourse and Transitivity

ISBN-13: 9781403994066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 305 str.

Dr J. Clancy Clements; Jiyoung Yoon

Opis

The first usage-based approach of its kind, this volume contains twelve studies on key issues in Spanish syntax: word order, arguments, grammatical-relation marking, inalienable possession, ser and estar, adjective placement, small clauses and causatives. The studies are approached within a broad functionalist perspective. The studies strengthen the view that components of grammar intricately interact and that a usage-based approach to analyzing them offers new and insightful perspectives on some stubborn problems.

Spis treści

List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: J.C.Clements & J.Yoon Semantic and Discourse-Pragmatic Factors in Spanish Word Order; B.L.Meirama Continuity and Episodic Structure in Spanish Subject Reference; L.Comajoan Gustar -type verbs; V.V.Rozas Primary and Secondary Object Marking in Spanish; J.C.Clements Direct Objects in Spanish; J.C.Clements Transitivity and the Syntax of Inalienable Possession in Spanish; R.Winters Ser and estar in the Predicate Adjective Construction; J.C.Clements Spanish Adjective Position: Differences Between Written and Spoken Discourse; R.J.File-Muriel Adjective Placement and Noun Semantics in Spanish; M.E.García-Bayonas 'Juan salió contento' : Semantic Constraints on Small Clauses in Adjunct Position; J.Yoon Causative hacer and dejar ; C.Ruiz-Sánchez Index

O autorze

LLORENÇ COMAJOAN is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Middlebury College, USA RICHARD J. FILE-MURIEL is in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA MARICHE EUGENIA GARCÍA-BAYONAS is Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA BELÉN LÓPEZ MEIRAMA is a Professor of Spanish, Universidad de Santiago, Galicia, Spain CARMEN RUIZ-SÁNCHEZ is in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA VICTORIA VÁZQUEZ ROZAS is a Professor in the Department of Spanish, Universidad de Santiago, Galicia, Spain RICHARD WINTERS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisiana, La Fayette, USA