The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language:

Suñer, Margarita

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“…The second position is that overt preverbal pronouns are indeed subjects, in an A-position (Goodall 1999, Suñer 2003. The third position is that preverbal subjects can be either in A-positions or in A'-positions (Camacho 2013).…”

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Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

Fábregas

2016

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ABSTRACT. This article presents the main facts about how information structure is syntactically codified in Spanish, with particular attention to the syntax of topics and foci. These facts will be used to assess whether cartographic and minimalist approaches can, in their pure version, account precisely for this set of facts in a predictive way. We discuss the taxonomy of topics and foci, the evidence for their syntactic position, their A'-movement properties, the asymmetries between left-and right-dislocated elements, and the availability of information structure inside subordinate clauses.Keywords. topic; focus; information structure; embedded contexts; dislocation; root clause RESUMEN. Este artículo presenta los principales datos acerca de la codificación sintáctica de la estructura informativa en español, con especial atención a la sintaxis de tópicos y focos. Estos hechos serán utilizados para evaluar si, en su forma más pura, las teorías cartográficas o minimistas pueden explicar estos hechos de una forma predictiva. El trabajo discute la taxonomía de tópicos y focos, qué datos hay para identificar su posición sintáctica, sus propiedades de movimiento A', las asimetrías entre elementos dislocados a izquierda y derecha, y la posibilidad de introducir estructura informativa marcada en el interior de las oraciones subordinadas.

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“…Moreover, Suñer (2003) and Sheehan (2007) have found cases were preverbal subjects have narrow scope, as in the following sentence: (297) En mi universidad, un estudiante ha denunciado a cada profesor.…”

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Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

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2016

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“…Costa (2000) considers that preverbal subjects can correspond either to (3) or to (4) in European Portuguese, although in section 4 I partially distinguish the arguments he makes for EP from what I find for BP. Suñer 2003 shows convincingly that Spanish subjects take up an A-position, but can also be leftdislocated, as many other constituents. Zubizarreta 1998 represents yet a different view based on Spanish in that she proposes an alternative treatment of Spec, TP that incorporates to it properties associated with topicalization and focus.…”

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“…Cardinaletti 1999, Goodall 1999, Suñer 2003 or to (4) (e.g. Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 1998, Barbosa 2000, Ordóñez 1997), but not both.…”

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“…He argues that overt preverbal subjects in Spanish are left-peripheral constituents. That is, they are overtly realized in a projection within the CP domain, more specifically 4 Two possible exceptions are Suñer 2003and Costa 2000(see also Costa 2001. Costa (2000) considers that preverbal subjects can correspond either to (3) or to (4) in European Portuguese, although in section 4 I partially distinguish the arguments he makes for EP from what I find for BP.…”

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The subject, it is here! The varying structural positions of preverbal subjects

Pires

2007

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This paper analyzes preverbal overt subjects, comparing Brazilian Portuguese to (other) null-subject languages, especially within Romance. It explores syntactic and semantic properties, including resumption, ellipsis, quantifiers and scope, variable binding, ordering restrictions, pronominal distinctions, minimality violations, bare nouns and definiteness. It concludes that preverbal subjects in Brazilian Portuguese can be realized both in argumental positions (Specifier of the Inflectional or Tense Phrase) and non-argumental positions (Topic Phrase specifiers), with the possibility that both types of positions are filled by the subject in the same clause, incorporating properties that have been argued not to be found together in other languages. KEY-WORDS: Portuguese; minimalism; subjects; comparative syntax. A., 23:esp., 2007 (113-146) * It is a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to contribute some of my work to a volume in honor of Lucia Lobato. I am very grateful to have counted with her encouragement and friendship for many years. During her career, Lucia Lobato made crucial contributions to linguistics in Brazil, by means of her research, and by teaching and advising many students who went on to follow careers in the field. She was an extremely dedicated teacher and mentor to her students, and her own work inspired many of them in different ways. Her efforts to promote the interaction among linguists in Brazil and abroad also contributed significantly to the development of the field in Brazil. I hope Lucia's efforts and dedication to linguistics remain an inspiration to Brazilian linguists for a long time. I would like to thank the editors of this volume, Cilene Rodrigues and Ana Paula Scher, for taking the time to edit this collection of papers in honor of Lucia Lobato, and for inviting me to contribute this paper. Thanks also to my research assistants: Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro, for surveying part of the relevant literature on the analysis of subjects which I refer to in this paper, especially regarding analyses previously proposed for Spanish; and Amanda Gallaher, for helping with the final proofs. RESUMO: Esse artigo analiza sujeitos preverbais manifestos, comparando o português do Brasil com (outras) línguas de sujeitos nulos. O artigo investiga propriedades sintáticas e semânticas, incluindo pronomes resumptivos, elipse, quantificadores e escopo, ligação de variáveis, restrições de ordem, distinções pronominais, violações de minimalidade, nomes sem determinantes, e definitude. Concluo que esses sujeitos preverbais podem realizarse tanto em posição argumental (especificador do sintagma flexional ou temporal) quanto em posições não-argumentais (posições de tópico), com a possibilidade de os dois tipos de posições serem preenchidos pelo sujeito na mesma oração, incorporando propriedades que são tidas como não ocorrendo juntas em outras línguas.

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Prominence scales and unmarked word order in Spanish

Gutièrrez-Bravo

2007

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The lexical preverbal subject in a Romance Null Subject Language:

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Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

The subject, it is here! The varying structural positions of preverbal subjects

Prominence scales and unmarked word order in Spanish

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