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

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    Identificador: imarina:6362757
    Autores:
    Silvia Planas Morales, Xavier Villalba
    Resumen:
    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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    Autor según el artículo: Silvia Planas Morales, Xavier Villalba
    Departamento: Pedagogia
    e-ISSN: 2014-9719
    Autor/es de la URV: Planas Morales, Sílvia
    Palabras clave: Spanish Right-dislocation Prosody Inversion Interrogative sentences Information structure Catalan
    Resumen: 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.
    Áreas temáticas: 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
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 1695-6885
    Direcció de correo del autor: silvia.planas@urv.cat silvia.planas@urv.cat
    Página final: 217
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-12-02
    Volumen de revista: 12
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v12-planas-morales
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Catalan Journal Of Linguistics. 12 193-217
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI del artículo: 10.5565/rev/catjl.72
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2013
    Página inicial: 193
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    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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