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Las dislocaciones y los pronombres reasuntivos indefinidos
Dislocations and null resumptive indefinite pronoun

Author(s): Mª Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez
Contributor(s): Adolfo Rodríguez Posada (Editor), Ilinca Ilian Ţăranu (Editor), Gabriella Zombory (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: dislocations-determiners-ressumptive pronouns-clitics-indefinite pro.

Summary/Abstract: Spanish presents a dilemma with respect to its relative free word order in the sentence. In this paper a number of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors are addressed to determine the existence of indefinite noun phrases to the left of the verb or initial position without being syntactical subjects. Rather, they are analysed as Topics in Hanging Topic Left Dislocation configurations, linked to a null resumptive indefinite pronoun in the sentence.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 185-205
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Spanish