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Author:   Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415976077

ISBN 10:   0415976073
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   09 December 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 The Study of Word Order General Overview Language-Internal Word Order Variation 1.2 Optimality Theory The Architecture of OT Optimality Theoretic Syntax 1.3 Spanish Basic Assumptions A Note about the Data 2. The EPP and the Notion of the Pole 2.1 Pole vs. [Spec I] Extended Projections Minimal Extended Projections A Redefinition of the EPP 2.2 Pole vs. Subject Topicalization and ""Wh""-Movement in Ellipsis Characterizing the Pole 2.3 Preliminary Evidence for the Pole in Spanish The Pole as the Remnant of Ellipsis Negation and the Pole in Spanish 2.4 Conclusions 3. Markedness Constraints on Syntactic Structure 3.1 Unmarked Word Order in Spanish 3.2 Markedness and Syntactic Structure The Pole and the Thematic Hierarchy Harmonic Alignment The Pole Hierarchy 3.3 An OT Analysis Based on Markedness Structural Markedness and Unmarked Word Order Alternative Analyses 3.4 Other Constructions 3.5 Some Typological Predictions 3.6 Conclusions 4. Word Order and Information Structure 4.1 Perturbations of the Unmarked Word Order 4.2 Focus Focus in Spanish Subject Presentational Foci Sentence Focus 4.3 Topicalization Topicalization and the Pole Vacuous Structure Topic and Focus Presentational Clauses VOS Clauses Default Topics Multiple Topics 4.4 Conclusions 5. ""Wh""-Interrogatives and Word Order 5.1 ""Wh""-Interrogatives in Spanish 5.2 Deriving ""Wh""-Movement 5.3 Matrix Interrogatives in Mexican Spanish Basics of the Analysis Against Inversion Analyses Interrogative ""Wh""-Operators in the Pole 5.4 Embedded Interrogatives 5.5 Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index"

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Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo is Associate professor of linguistics at the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City.

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