Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of the Syntactic Categories in Contemporary Spanish (Compared to Russian and English) Cover Image

Los aspectos semánticos y pragmáticos de las categorías sintácticas en el español contemporáneo (en comparación con el ruso y el inglés)
Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of the Syntactic Categories in Contemporary Spanish (Compared to Russian and English)

Author(s): Milena Popova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: diathetic changes; focus; semantic roles; syntactic typology; topic

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on some key tendencies and recent developments in linguistic theory that have caused radical changes in traditional syntactic analysis. In this context the author studies the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in utterances in Spanish. Stress is laid upon syntactic constructions with unaccusative and affective predicates and upon some diathetic changes related to them, which determine the syntactic typology of Spanish in comparison with Russian and English.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 363-369
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Spanish