Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish

ISBN-13: 9780415976077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 232 str.

Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo

Opis

Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo investigates a number of word order phenomenon in Spanish, concentrating on the language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement. He demonstrates that word order in Spanish is not regulated by licensing conditions related to the subject (ie Case, agreement, etc), but rather results from the interaction between the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) and structural markedness considerations. He proposes that Spanish clauses have different degrees of structural markedness, depending on the semantic role of the constituent in the Pole position.

O autorze

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo is Associate professor of linguistics at the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City.