Author, as appears in the article.: Silvia Planas Morales, Xavier Villalba
Department: Pedagogia
e-ISSN: 2014-9719
URV's Author/s: Planas Morales, Sílvia
Keywords: Spanish Right-dislocation Prosody Inversion Interrogative sentences Information structure Catalan
Abstract: It has been reported in the literature that interrogative sentences behave quite differently regarding subject-verb inversion in Spanish and Catalan: whereas the former allows ‘classical’ VS inversion, and particularly VSO, the latter systematically resorts to right-dislocation in all cases (V(O)#S). In this paper we scrutinize this observation from a corpus-based perspective, and including into the syntactic picture the prosodic and pragmatic features of interrogatives. We show that Catalan interrogatives clearly favor RD, in sharp contrast with Spanish, which favors in situ realization of background material. This latter option has important consequences for the prosodic patterns of Spanish interrogatives, which mark final focus constituents with a pitch rising and that final background material with a slight pitch fall.
Thematic Areas: Revistas de filología y linüística Linguistics and language Linguistics Lingüística general y aplicada Lingüística Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Información y documentación Filologías Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 1695-6885
Author's mail: silvia.planas@urv.cat silvia.planas@urv.cat
Last page: 217
Record's date: 2023-12-02
Journal volume: 12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Papper original source: Catalan Journal Of Linguistics. 12 193-217
APA: Silvia Planas Morales, Xavier Villalba (2013). The Right Periphery of Interrogatives in Catalan and Spanish: Syntax/Prosody Interactions. Catalan Journal Of Linguistics, 12(), 193-217. DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.72
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2013
First page: 193
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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