Book contents
- Exploring Interfaces
- Exploring Interfaces
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Road to Interfaces
- I Syntax–Lexicon Interface
- II Syntax–Semantics Interface
- III Linearization
- 8 Merge, Restructuring, and Clitic Climbing in Spanish
- 9 Linearization When Multiple Orderings Are Possible: Adjective Ordering Restrictions and Focus
- 10 Dialectal Variation in VOS Word Order in Spanish
- Index
- References
10 - Dialectal Variation in VOS Word Order in Spanish
from III - Linearization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
- Exploring Interfaces
- Exploring Interfaces
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Road to Interfaces
- I Syntax–Lexicon Interface
- II Syntax–Semantics Interface
- III Linearization
- 8 Merge, Restructuring, and Clitic Climbing in Spanish
- 9 Linearization When Multiple Orderings Are Possible: Adjective Ordering Restrictions and Focus
- 10 Dialectal Variation in VOS Word Order in Spanish
- Index
- References
Summary
The influencing work by María Luisa Zubizarreta on the syntax–prosody–information structure connection has enlightened the study of the language faculty (Zubizarreta, 1994, 1998, 1999). Her observations have led to much debate not only on general abstract properties of language but also on several empirical domains. Of particular relevance to the understanding of the relationship between syntax, sentence-level stress, and informational structure is her contribution to the debate on the mechanisms that generate VOS word order in Spanish. Zubizarreta’s (1998) pioneering work proposes a formal analysis of the connection between VOS word order, stress assignment, and focus interpretation.
According to Zubizarreta (1998), to obtain a narrow focus interpretation on the subject, Romance languages generate VOS configurations. In her proposal, Spanish VOS order is the result of a short VP-movement operation involving the verb and its complement that leaves the subject in sentence-final position.
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- Exploring Interfaces , pp. 268 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019