Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase

Villalba, Xavier; Bartra-Kaufmann, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.07.010

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“…Without going far afield we find such constructions in French (Lauwers 2008;Beauseroy 2009;Borer and Roy 2010), Spanish (Villalba 2009;Villalba and Bartra-Kaufmann 2010), Greek (Giannakidou and Stavrou 1999;Alexiadou 2011), Serbo-Croatian (Arsenijevic 2011), Slovak (Richtarcikova 2014), German, Italian (Marzo and Umbreit 2013), and Romanian (Alexiadou and Iordachioaia 2013), in addition to English, as mentioned in Sect. 1.…”

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Reference to and via properties: the view from Dutch

McNally

Swart

2015

Linguist and Philos

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Many languages offer a surprisingly complex range of options for referring to entities using expressions whose main descriptive content is contributed by an adjective, such as Dutch de blinde 'the blind (person),' het besprokene, 'the (matters) discussed,' or het ongewone van het niet roken 'the strange (thing) about not smoking.' In this paper, we present a case study of the syntax and compositional semantics of three such constructions in Dutch, one of which we argue has not previously been identified in the literature. The data and the analysis will shed light on our understanding of how reference using adjectives differs from that using nouns in languages that have the two categories, as well as on the differences between reference to entities via their properties vs. reference to properties themselves. Finally, we briefly discuss related work and indicate directions for future study of the typological variation found in this rich and highly understudied corner of natural language.

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Section: The Bigger Picturementioning

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Reference to and via properties: the view from Dutch

McNally

Swart

2015

Linguist and Philos

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“…Moreover, the structures are reminiscent of a type of exclamatives found in Spanish (Gutiérrez‐Rexach 1999, 2008, Villalba & Bartra‐Kaufmann in press) and Catalan (Castroviejo Miró 2006), called degree relative clauses in Castroviejo Miró (2006). These involve a neuter determiner introducing the exclamative, as shown in (12).…”

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Introduction: Exclamatives in North Germanic and beyond

Abels

Vangsnes

2010

Studia Linguistica

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“…The next step in the derivation involves merge of Focus, which probes and attracts the predicate NP (on the presence of a FocusP in the DP, see Aboh 2004, Giusti 1996, Demonte 2008, Villalba & Bartra-Kaufmann 2008:…”

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“…In this section, I extend the information-based approach developed in 3 to an independent nominal construction: the Spanish "lo-de construction" (see Gutiérrez-Rexach 1999, Bartra-Kaufmann & Villalba 2006and Villalba & Bartra-Kaufmann 2008. 45Me sorprendió lo caro/*cara de la casa.…”

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“…This analysis will be shown to account in a simple and elegant way for a variegated set of data, and to extend straightforwardly to a related nominal quantificational construction, the Spanish lo-de construction (see Bartra-Kaufmann & Villalba 2006;Villalba & Bartra-Kaufmann 2008). Yet, since it has crucial differences with respect to the standard view concerning this construction, the first section will be devoted to presenting the influential proposal developed in den Dikken (2006) for Germanic and Romance QBNPs.…”

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The Focus-Background Articulation in Spanish Qualitative Binominal NPs

Villalba

2008

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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The goal of this article is to show that, unlike recent analyses of the qualitative binominal NP construction (QBNP) that idiot of a doctor/el idiota del médico, Spanish QBNPs require an analysis with the following features: (i) the definite article preceding the subject nominal is a fully-fledged determiner, (ii) the predicate-subject final word order is the consequence of predicate focus fronting, (iii) the subject receives background interpretation, and (iv) as a consequence of its interpretation as background, the subject of the construction must be specific, which explains the apparently syntactic restrictions on the size of the nominals occurring in this position. This proposal is shown to extend straightforwardly to a kindred Spanish nominalizing construction, yielding a better understanding of the role of focus in DP structure.

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Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase

Cited by 22 publications

References 30 publications

Reference to and via properties: the view from Dutch

Reference to and via properties: the view from Dutch

Introduction: Exclamatives in North Germanic and beyond

The Focus-Background Articulation in Spanish Qualitative Binominal NPs

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