Locative and temporal weak proforms

Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier; Silva-Villar, Luis

doi:10.1075/cilt.157.12gut

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“…27 Corr (2012: 33-35) provides further support to the notion of deictic reference described here, drawing on, amongst others, Gutiérrez-Rexach (2001)'s proposal that modern Spanish possesses a deictic clitic system derived from the strong adverbial proforms ahí and ahora. Gutiérrez-Rexach (2001), following Gutiérrez-Rexach & Silva-Villar (1998), assumes that modern Spanish has a system of locative and temporal clitics derived from the strong adverbial proforms ahí ('there', near speaker/addressee; cf. allí, 'there', far from both speaker and addressee) and ahora ('now').…”

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Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: A locative account

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2016

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper explores the hypothesis that wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance is a type of locative inversion, involving a null locative argument. Ibero-Romance displays finegrained, systematic variation determined by verbal class and variety, offering evidence that Ibero-Romance neutral word order is SVO, rather than VSO as claimed by some null-subject accounts. It is proposed that 'locative' subject-verb inversion is a consequence of grammaticallyencoded deictic features correlating with the semantic properties of the verbs involved. The locative element, available unequally across Ibero-Romance, can surface in different positions in the left periphery, yielding the variation encountered. The data indicate that the licensing of these constructions depends neither on the null-subject parameter, since this type of inversion also occurs in non-and partial null-subject varieties, nor on the unaccusative/unergative division, though in both cases a degree of correspondence exists.

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confidence: 99%