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- Title
La gramática oculta de la polaridad positiva en español antiguo.
- Authors
RODRÍGUEZ MOLINA, JAVIER
- Abstract
This paper proposes a new framework for the grammaticalization of the Old Spanish manner adverb sí so / yes' as a positive polarity item. My proposal is that Old Spanish and Modern Spanish display different syntactic structures to convey positive polarity; in Old Spanish it involves not only the adverb sí, but it is related to verb movement, focus, clitic placement, VP-ellipsis and the properties of the Po/(arity) Head. I claim that the restructuring of the Left Periphery in Renaissance Spanish set the scenario for the reanalysis of sí as a polarity item and led to the emergence of previously unknown syntactic structures related to the expression of positive polarity, such as sí que or bare sí. Since the strong or weak features of the Pol Head is what regulates whether sí was a polarity item or not, strong features of Pol appear to be the underlying factor which determines the syntactic properties of positive polarity in Old Spanish.
- Subjects
ADVERBS (Grammar); SPANISH language -- To 1500; POLARITY (Linguistics); SPANISH language; MORPHOSYNTAX; HISTORICAL linguistics; SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
RILCE. Revista de Filología Hispánica, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 3, p861
- ISSN
0213-2370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15581/008.30.392