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- Title
La estructura informativa del doblado de predicados.
- Authors
Pérez, Carlos Muñoz; Verdecchia, Matías
- Abstract
In this paper we analyze the information structure of predicate doubling in Rioplatense Spanish (e.g., Leer, leyó 'as for reading, she/he read'). We propose that in this construction the dislocated predicate functions as a contrastive topic in the sense of Büring (2003), that is, it evokes a set of alternative questions with which it contrasts. We argue that this characterization explains the "continuation effect" that predicate doubling exhibits, i.e., the fact that a predicate doubling sentence suggests a potential continuation that involves another predicate. Moreover, we show that this analysis correctly predicts the distribution of predicate doubling in embedding contexts.
- Subjects
RIO de la Plata (Viceroyalty); DATA structures; CONTRASTIVE linguistics; SPANISH language; VERB phrases; PREDICATE (Logic); LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
Lexis. Revista de Lingüística y Literatura, 2022, Vol 46, Issue 2, p523
- ISSN
0254-9239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18800/lexis.202202.003