Subject Positions and the Roles of CP

Silva-Villar, Luis

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“…Under the view that, at least in some EP varieties, ele and the neuter demonstrative pronouns may correspond to expletive subjects, a fairly straightforward move is to compare examples like (6) (and (1) above) to MSCs (cf. Silva-Villar 1998, Boeckx 2001, especially with respect to examples (6a) and (6b)). In fact, the hypothetical expletive subject co-occurs in such examples with an argumental subject which arguably appears in the canonical (preverbal) subject position.…”

Section: Aquilo Há Cardos (Aal75)mentioning

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10: Beyond Doubling: Overt Expletives In European Portuguese Dialects

Carrilho¹

2008

Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling

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This chapter examines constructions which are tangential to syntactic doubling: overt expletive constructions in non-standard European Portuguese (henceforth EP), with special reference to instances occasionally equated with multiple-subject constructions. It is argued that, given the special status of the EP overt expletive, subject doubling is only illusive in such constructions. More specifically, the syntactic distribution of the EP expletive and the discourse effects displayed in EP expletive constructions substantiate the proposal that, differently from expletive subjects, this expletive is related to a high projection within the left periphery of the sentence, which has special import for the mapping between syntax and illocutionary force in discourse (arguably ForceP).

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Section: Aquilo Há Cardos (Aal75)mentioning

confidence: 93%

10: Beyond Doubling: Overt Expletives In European Portuguese Dialects

Carrilho¹

2008

Microvariation in Syntactic Doubling

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“…Estudios anteriores (Silva-Villar 1998;Carrilho 2005;2008;Hinzelin & Kaiser 2006;; Martínez-Sanz 2011; Camacho 2013b; Muñoz Pérez 2014, etc.) tienden a asumir una caracterización homogénea del fenómeno en todas las variedades ibero-románicas.…”

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El cambio lingüístico y la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática: evidencias de las lenguas ibero-románicas

Corr

2016

CLECM

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En este artículo se analiza la función y distribución del llamado "sujeto expletivo visible" ello/ele/ell en ciertas variedades ibero-románicas no estándares. Se presentan nuevos datos empíricos con el fin de demostrar la caracterización heterogénea del fenómeno, cuya variación actual, según se argumenta, se ve explicada por los distintos grados de cambio sufridos por el elemento expletivo en cada variedad ibero-románica. La contribución pragmática del expletivo ibérico actual semeja el valor semántico de las pruebas empíricas más antiguas y más frecuentes del elemento en los corpus históricos consultados, observación que sirve de punto de partida para reconstruir la trayectoria diacrónica del elemento desde su propuesto origen en contextos impersonales y epistémicos hasta la actualidad, en que el presunto expletivo ibérico demuestra características tanto expletivas como pragmáticas incluso dentro de la misma variedad. Original recibido: 2015/05/28Dictamen enviado al autor: 2015/08/07Aceptado: 2015/09/10

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“…The usual analysis for (6) consists in taking ello as a discourse-related left peripheral element (e.g., Uriagereka 1995, Silva-Villar 1998. However, this alternative does not seem to be correct in DSEC since, as Martínez-Sanz 2011 According to Martínez-Sanz (2011), this evidence suggest that ello in DSEC occupies the [Spec,T] position.…”

Section: Introduction: Optional Overt Expletives In Dominican Spanishmentioning

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Dominican 'ello' as a non-deleted null expletive

Pérez

2014

Borealis

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The Spanish variety spoken in the dominican region of El Cibao (DSEC) has an expletive pronoun ello which is optative and seems to be devoid of any semantic value. This squib aims to present an analysis for this expletive in line with the Strong Uniformity Hypothesis of Chomsky (2001): ello would be nothing but a non-deleted instance of an expletive null subject. The distribution and optionality of this expletive follow from the instability of a definiteness feature in the pronominal expletives of this variety.

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Subject Positions and the Roles of CP

Cited by 11 publications

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10: Beyond Doubling: Overt Expletives In European Portuguese Dialects

10: Beyond Doubling: Overt Expletives In European Portuguese Dialects

El cambio lingüístico y la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática: evidencias de las lenguas ibero-románicas

Dominican 'ello' as a non-deleted null expletive

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