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The Right Periphery of Interrogatives in Catalan and Spanish: Syntax/Prosody Interactions

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    Identifier: imarina:6362757
    Authors:
    Silvia Planas Morales, Xavier Villalba
    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.
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    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
    Link to the original source: https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v12-planas-morales
    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/
    Article's DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.72
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2013
    First page: 193
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Language & Linguistics,Language and Linguistics,Linguistics and Language
    Spanish
    Right-dislocation
    Prosody
    Inversion
    Interrogative sentences
    Information structure
    Catalan
    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
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