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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Interface Explorations [IE] ; v. 29 |
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Interface Explorations IE
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| Contents |
List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 A brief socio-linguistic history of Galician; 1.2 The sociolinguistic situation in Galicia; 1.2.1 Heritage-speaker bilingualism in Galicia; 1.2.2 Self-reported language competence ratings; 1.3 Interface instability in bilinguals; 1.4 Syntactic framework -- assumptions; 2 The interaction between syntax and information structure; 2.1 Argument vs. Non-argument positions in syntax; 2.2 Syntactic tests for arguments and non-arguments; 2.3 The analysis of subjects as non-arguments in Spanish |
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2.4 Analyses of Spanish preverbal subjects as canonical arguments2.5 The debate on subjects in European Portuguese; 2.5.1 Analysis of EP subjects as non-arguments; 2.5.2 Analyses of EP preverbal subjects as canonical arguments; 2.6 Taking stock of preverbal subject analyses; 2.7 Preverbal subjects in Galician; 2.8 Syntactic structures in context; 2.8.1 When syntax meets discourse; 2.8.2 Defining Information Structure; 2.8.3 Definitions of Topic/Theme; 2.8.4 Definitions of Focus/Rheme; 2.9 Syntactic accounts of the syntax-information structure interface; 2.9.1 Casielles (2004) |
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2.9.2 The Interface and Phases2.9.3 López's (2009) interface model; 2.10 Establishing clausal structure in Galician; 2.11 Summary; 3 Methodology; 3.1 Preliminary concerns; 3.2 Participants: Tasks 1 and 2; 3.2.1 Participant variables; 3.2.2 Procedures: Tasks 1 and 2; 3.3 Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task; 3.3.1 Condition A; 3.3.2 Condition B; 3.3.3 Condition C; 3.3.4 Condition D; 3.3.5 Condition E; 3.3.6 Condition F; 3.3.7 Condition G; 3.4 Task 2: Word Order Preference Task; 3.4.1 Condition A; 3.4.2 Condition B; 3.4.3 Condition C; 3.4.4 Condition D; 3.4.5 Condition E; 3.4.6 Condition F |
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3.4.7 Summary of quantitative experimental tasks3.5 Task 3: Recorded field interview; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 Statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative measures; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Task 1; 4.2.1 Condition A; 4.2.2 Condition B; 4.2.3 Condition C; 4.2.4 Condition D; 4.2.5 Condition E; 4.2.6 Condition F; 4.2.7 Condition G; 4.2.8 Summary of Task 1 discourse conditions; 4.3 Task 2; 4.3.1 Condition A; 4.3.2 Condition B; 4.3.3 Condition C; 4.3.4 Condition D; 4.3.5 Condition E; 4.3.6 Condition G; 4.3.7 Task 2 by language dominance; 4.3.8 Task 2 statistical results by gender |
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4.3.9 Task Two Summary4.4 Follow-up task for Task 2; 4.5 Task 3 results; 4.6 Summary and discussion: quantitative measures; 4.6.1 Discussion; 4.6.2 Subject CLLD within the SDRT notions of Subordination and Continuation; 4.6.3 A note on CLLD response ratings; 4.7 Final methodological considerations; 5 Toward a Left-peripheral Syntactic Analysis of Galician; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Main-clause cliticization in Galician; 5.2.1 A brief excursus on F; 5.2.2 Fernández-Rubiera's (2009) syntactic account of clitic directionality in WIR; 5.3 Main clause preverbal elements in Galician |
| Summary |
The syntactic analysis of preverbal subjects has been the topic of debate for a wide variety of languages. This book establishes clausal word order preferences for Galician, a null-subject language of the Iberian Peninsula, based on quantitative and qualitative data. The experimental methodology and information structure assumptions employed create several testable predictions. The results suggest that, in a wide range of contexts, preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not clitic left-dislocated (CLLD) elements |
| Analysis |
Galician |
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Information Structure |
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Preverbal Subject |
| Notes |
5.4 Extending the left periphery: subordinate clause phenomena in Galician |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Galician language -- Syntax
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Galician language -- Grammar
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Galician language -- Word order
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Portuguese.
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Galician language -- Grammar
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501500305 |
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1501500309 |
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