Recomplementation in English and Spanish: Delineating the CP space
| Autor: | Julio Villa-Garcia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Space (punctuation)
Linguistics and Language Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 dislocation Head (linguistics) Specifier syntax linguistics left periphery recomplementation left periphery CLLD HTLD discourse markers Syntax Language and Linguistics Adjunct Linguistics Dislocation (syntax) Phenomenon Sociology Discourse marker |
| Zdroj: | Glossa, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2019) Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 4, No 1 (2019); 56 Villa-García, J 2019, ' Recomplementation in English and Spanish: Delineating the CP space ', Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, vol. 4(1): 56, pp. 1-44 . https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.845 |
| ISSN: | 2397-1835 |
| DOI: | 10.5334/gjgl.845 |
| Popis: | The paper aims to provide a characterization of the colloquial phenomenonof recomplementation (i.e., that1/que1 - XP[dislocated] - that2/que2constructions) in both contemporary English and Spanish from a comparativeperspective. I draw a systematic comparison between that2 and que2 andpresent a host of similarities in terms of the syntactic behavior anddistribution of secondary complementizers in the two languages. Thus, Iargue for a unified analysis of recomplementation in English and Spanishwithin Rizzi’s (1997 et seq.) split-CP hypothesis wherein the flankeddislocate occupies the specifier of TopicP, whose head is spelled out asthat2/que2. I therefore show that the structures of the peripheries of Englishand Spanish are not as different as they may appear to be at first sight. Ialso note several asymmetries between the two languages in terms of theinteraction between recomplementation patterns and other constructions,and submit that these differences can be ascribed to independent factors:they are due to lexico-semantic and syntactic differences displayed by thetwo languages, but not to a different underlying left-peripheralarchitecture. The paper also investigates the reason(s) why secondarythats/ques are lexically realized and argues for the polyvalent nature ofsuch iterative complementizers. I further speculate that one of theirfunctions is to mark discourse. The findings reported here also have far-reaching consequences for the contentious derivation of preposed topicalphrases in the syntax of English and Spanish (including adjunct clauses), aswell as ramifications to other existing debates. |
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