PROSODY AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN CATALAN AND SPANISH INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES

Authors

  • Sílvia Planas-Morales Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  • Xavier Villalba Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v8i1.13325

Keywords:

focus, background, right-dislocation, interrogative sentences

Abstract

Catalan and Spanish express the focus-background (FB) partition of sentence in a very different way (Villalba, 2007, 2011, Leonetti, 2011, Planas-Morales y Villalba, 2015), particularly in interrogative sentences, where Catalan allows expresing the background as a right-dislocate, instead of resorting to deletion (recoverable by means of the resumptive clitic or the verbal agreement). Furthermore, Spanish never expresses the background by means of right-dislocation, but allows in situ realization. In this article, we present a comparative corpus study which shows that the FB partition displays microparametric differences.

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Published

2018-12-18

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Planas-Morales, S., & Villalba, X. (2018). PROSODY AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN CATALAN AND SPANISH INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES. Normas, 8(1), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v8i1.13325
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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2018)

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