Word Order in Constructions with a One-Valency Verb, a Subject NP and a PP in Spoken Rioplatense Spanish

Thinking for speaking and cross-linguistic transfer in preschool bilingual children

“…For example, Zwanziger, Allen, and Genesee (2005) reported that there was no cross-linguistic transfer for EnglishÁInuktitut bilingual children's use of subject or null pronouns in the two languages. As pro-drop languages, like Spanish and Inuktitut, often drop pronouns for pragmatic purposes (see Ocampo 1991), it is possible that children conceptualize subjects in the two sentences differently (however, see Paradis and Navarro 2003;Serratrice, Sorace, and Paoli 2004). We have proposed that children's thinking for speaking is language-specific, which explains why the bilingual children showed no transfer here.…”

Pragmatic factors in word order: Constructions with a verb and an adverb in spoken Spanish

“…First, word order variation in constructions with a verb and an adverb follows the same pattern as all constructions with a verb and another constituent (Ocampo 1995), summarized in Table 1. According to this pattern, word order variation correlates with the pragmatic function conveyed by the construction.…”

“…On the other hand, the presence of a clitic (me, te, nos, lo, los, la, las, le, les, se) does not affect word order in these constructions (Ocampo 1995). Silva-Corvalän (1984) considers that -at least in some varieties -Spanish clitics are in the process of grammaticalizing as morphological indicators of objectverb agreement.…”

“…What motivates their position when conveying information may be the same factor that motivates the postverbal position of prepositional phrases (Ocampo 1991(Ocampo , 1995. 6 1 will not deal with this issue here.…”

English/Spanish syntactic contrasts: minimalism and optimality

“…111 There are many references in the literature for word-order phenomena and informative functions such as theme and rheme, starting with Halliday (1967) and the School of Prague (Bene 1968, Firbas 1966, Dane 1974, Shall 1984, Shall et al 1986. Other works on this topic include, among many others, Hatter (1956), Contreras (1983), Ant (1984), Fernández Soriano (1993), Liceras et al (1992), Liceras (1994), Ocampo (1989Ocampo ( , 1990Ocampo ( , 1991, Silva-Corvalán (1984), Bentivoglio (1983) and Delbecque's (1987) statistical analysis.…”