The introduction of new referents in French and Spanish discourse

Ocampo, Francisco A

doi:10.1075/cilt.103.32oca

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“…For example, would-be topics that are, in Prince's (1981) terms, brand-new and brand-new anchored are often introduced with the Spanish presentative hay and the French il y a so as to appear postverbally and in a separate clause from the focus/ comment (Ocampo, 1993;see (14), (15)). 2 Under this strategy, new "topics" are placed in focus position.…”

Section: P E R S P E C T I V E S O N P R a G M A T I C A L L Y B A S mentioning

confidence: 98%

Subject-verb order in spoken Arabic: Morpholexical and event-based factors

2009

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A B S T R A C TThis article explores the relationship between the global functions of variable subject-verb order and morpholexical class of subjects in the spoken Arabic of the Arabian peninsula. Using corpus-based methods, it is shown that lexical class -pronoun, pronominal, noun-definiteness, and the discourse-defined lexical specificity of a noun all correlate significantly with subject-verb or verb-subject word order. The global function of the two orders is explored using an array of measures to show that verb-subject order prototypically presents events, while subject-verb signals available referentiality. Using the quantitatively based study of Anthony Naro and Sebastiao Votre ([1999]. Discourse motivations for linguistic regularities: Verb/subject order in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Probus 11:75-100.) on Brazilian Portuguese as a point of comparison, a typological framework is developed for understanding languages with variable subject-verb order.This article examines subject-verb (SV) word order in three varieties of Arabic spoken on the Arabian peninsula, showing that SV order is broadly sensitive to two sets of factors. The first encompasses formal and categorical properties of the nominals in subject position, properties such as lexical class (pronoun, noun, or pronominal), definiteness, and length of subject phrases. The second pertains to the discourse-pragmatic status of the subject. In addition to detailing how the Research for this article was supported by the

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Section: P E R S P E C T I V E S O N P R a G M A T I C A L L Y B A S mentioning

confidence: 98%

Subject-verb order in spoken Arabic: Morpholexical and event-based factors

2009

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“…These constructions include inversion constructions in Italian and Spanish (Ocampo 1993), the French presentational y a cleft (Lambrecht 1987b), subject-agreement morphology in…”

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Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy

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2007

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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“…These include the referents' relationship with the preceding discourse (whether they are opening a new sequence or continuing an old one), their topicality and, especially, information flow properties, as explained below (e.g. Bentivoglio 1983;Bolinger 1991;Myhill 1992;Ocampo 1992Ocampo , 1993Silva-Corvala ´n 1994;Morris 1998;Lo ´pex-Meirama 2006;Garcı ´a Salido 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%