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Author : Antonio Fábregas Publisher : Taylor & Francis Page : 266 pages File Size : 23,21 MB Release : 2022-07-12 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 1000625265
Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives. This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasynthesis and the structural relation between the three major lexical word classes from within a Neo-Constructionist framework that highlights the correlations between the syntactic and semantic behaviour of verbs and their morphological make up. Provided within are detailed empirical descriptions of each of the nine major ways of building lexical verbs in Spanish, as well as an integral analysis of those patterns that shows the significance of the contrast between them and their uses to address some foundational questions in morphological theory. Spanish Verbalisations will be of particular interest to researchers in formal linguistics and Spanish. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Author : Mark Waltermire Publisher : Taylor & Francis Page : 232 pages File Size : 37,42 MB Release : 2022-12-22 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 1000806413
Mutual Influence in Situations of Spanish Language Contact in the Americas focuses on the structural results of contact between Spanish and Maya, Quechua, Guaraní, Portuguese, and English in the Americas. This edited volume explores the various ways in which these languages affect the linguistic structure of Spanish in situations of language contact, and also how Spanish impacts their linguistic structure. Across ten chapters, this book offers a broad survey of bidirectional influence in Spanish contact situations both geographically (in the US Southwest, the Yucatán Peninsula, the Andean regions of Ecuador and Peru, and the Southern Cone) and structurally (in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics). By examining the potential structural effects that two languages have on one another, it provides a novel and more holistic perspective on mutual linguistic influence than that of previous work on language contact. The volume serves as a reference on mutual influence in bilingual language varieties and will be of interest to researchers, scholars and graduate students in Hispanic linguistics, and more broadly in language contact.
Language Practices and Processes among Latin Americans in Europe is an innovative and thematically organised collection of studies dedicated to contemporary sociolinguistic research on Latin Americans across European contexts. This book captures some of the language practices and experiences of Spanish-speaking Latin Americans (SsLAs) across various regions in Europe, addressing language uses, language ideologies, and experiences with languages in particular geographical contexts and settings across the ten chapters. The book provides a new lens to study the sociolinguistics of the migratory trajectories of Spanish-speaking Latin American migrants and the situated practices and processes in which they participate in their host societies. The comprehensive volume will be of interest to researchers in the area of Spanish sociolinguistics, sociology of language, and language ideology.
Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the ways in which discourses about language value and identities of linguistic expertise are constructed and negotiated in the Spanish heritage language (HL) classroom, and how the classroom discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the world outside of the classroom. The volume examines the sociopolitical contexts, personal histories, and communicative practices of Spanish teachers and students in two diverse geographic regions: the US states of Texas and Kansas. Adopting an integrated sociocultural approach, it considers the ways in which individuals draw from multiple linguistic resources and social practices in daily interaction and how they articulate their beliefs about language through storytelling. Rich interactional data, examples from social media, and stories of community engagement are utilized to demonstrate how Spanish heritage speakers use language creatively and proactively to legitimize and claim power in their home and community linguistic practices. This is an invaluable resource for applied linguists who seek to better understand the relationship between language, ideology, and identity and for graduate students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, Spanish, and HL education.
This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology to Distributed Morphology and Generative Lexicon Theory. Section 1 offers a presentation of the main theoretical and descriptive approaches to collocation. Section 2 explores collocation from the point of view of its lexicographical representation, while Section 3 offers a pedagogical perspective. Section 4 surveys current research on collocation in Catalan, Galician and Basque. Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish will be of interest to students of Hispanic linguistics.
This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are defined. In this monograph the reader will find a detailed empirical description of suffixes for gender, mereological properties of nouns, scalar properties of adjectives and a variety of nominal suffixes expressing actions, measures or locations, as well as an integral Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic structure of the resulting formations. Framed within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework, this book sheds light on the nature of lexical categories and the components of the low syntactic structure of nouns and adjectives. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in learning more about the expressive devices that nouns and adjectives allow.
Abstract: In this dissertation I discuss several aspects of the syntax, semantics and discourse properties of what I call Spanish verbless clauses -i.e. non-finite utterances with clausal properties: Spanish PredNP muy listo este tío 'very intelligent this guy', Spanish PP complement clause me sorprende lo caro del piso 'it amazes me how expensive this apartment is', and Spanish Qualitative Binominal Noun Phases (QBNPs): comparative QBNP el tonto del alcalde 'the idiot of the mayor' and attributive QBNP un tonto de alcalde 'an idiot of a mayor'. In each of these clauses there is a subject-predicate relationship. The analysis advanced here is that Spanish PredNP, PP complement clauses and comparative QBNP can be analyzed in terms of predicate inversion. Movement of the predicate in each case is due to a strong semantic feature [+X] that needs to be discharged in the course of the syntactic derivation. It is argued that in Spanish PredNP the strong feature evaluativity [+E] is responsible for predicate inversion, while in PP complement clauses and comparative QBNP the strong feature gradability [+G] triggers movement of the predicate over its subject. In addition, it is argued that a copula or RELATOR lies between the understood subject and predicate of the clauses under analysis. In PP complement clauses and comparative QBNP this RELATOR is the nominal copula de 'of'', which is a meaningless element whose presence in the structure is forced by syntactic constraints. In Spanish PredNP the RELATOR is not empty -i.e. it accommodates the tense feature. This proposal is based on an insight by Benmamoun (2008), who has argued that tense is universally projected even though it does not need to co-occur with a verbal head. The syntactic analysis of attributive QBNP, on the other hand, is different from the previous analysis -i.e. these clauses do not involve predicate inversion. If syntax determines semantics and syntax-semantics interface is a function from syntax (Pollard 2006), then the most natural hypothesis is to assume that the syntax of comparative and attributive QBNPs is different, given that the interpretation of both clauses is not the same. The syntactic analysis developed here is couched within a Generalized Minimalist Grammar (GMG), as developed by Gutiérrez-Rexach (1997, 1998). The rationale for a generalized minimalist grammar analysis lies on the assumption that this grammar provides logical formulation to current generativist grammar (e.g. Chomsky 1993, 1995, 2000, 2001; and other authors). In other words, GMG formalizes minimalist ideas. This is by no means a unique enterprise. Lecomte (2005, 2008), for example, seeks a categorial embodiment of Chomsky's minimalist ideas in what he calls Categorial-Minimalist Grammars (CMGs). The goal of such approaches (i.e. GMG, CMGs, etc.) is to emphasize the role played by the lexicon and by very general operations, like e.g. Merge and Move in the minimalist framework, or Application and Abstraction in Categorial Grammars (Lecomte 2005).
This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo. A primary focus of attention is auxiliary verbs. It is argued that the structure dominating these verbs is essentially the same in English and Spanish, as is the structure dominating auxiliaries and 'main' verbs in each language. It must be concluded that the occurrence of distinct syntactic processes affecting auxiliaries and other VP constituents in the two languages does not follow from parametrization of phrase structure. It is argued that similarities between the two languages with respect to the composition of so-called "V*" constructions derive from the fact that VP is licensed under both clauses of the Principle of Full Interpretation, i. e. , predication and sub categorization. Distinct syntactic processes in English and Spanish are argued to follow from the fact that there are inflectional features related to each of these licensing conditions (including specification for [ ± PAST) and nominal person/number features) which affect government relations in distinct ways, resulting in parametrization of S-structure representa tions. xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my appreCiatIOn to the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Washington for support for preparation of the final manuscript, and to the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Virginia for a leave during which much of this research was accomplished.
This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of "realis, potentialis" and "irrealis" as parameters relevant to mood selection in both subordinate and non-subordinate clauses. Furthermore, a proposal is offered for a new typology of clause-embedding predicates. The framework chosen stems from the insight that complement-taking predicates share the property of providing information on the set of mental processes which characterize intentional human behavior. At the level of pragmatic analysis, mood selection is examined from a variety of angles. Thus, specific research is conducted within the framework of speech act theory, relevance theory, politeness theory and the theory of Gricean maxims.