Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish / Edition 1

by Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo

Overview

This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415976077
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/09/2005
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The EPP and the Notion of the PoleChapter 3: Markedness Constraints on Syntactic StructureChapter 4: Word order and Information StructureChapter 5: Wh-Interrogatives and Word Order