Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1. Left Sentence Peripheries in Old Spanish
6. Chapter 1. Left Dislocation phenomena in Old Spanish 23
7. Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish 53
8. Chapter 3. Left forever 77
9. Section 2. Syntactic variation in Modern Spanish
10. Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses and the left periphery 101
11. Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish 125
12. Chapter 6. The left periphery of Spanish comparative correlatives 155
13. Chapter 7. The article at the left periphery 185
14. Section 3. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
15. Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force 217
16. Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure 253
17. Chapter 10. Informational status and the semantics of mood in Spanish preposed complement clauses 283
18. Chapter 11. Fronting and irony in Spanish 309
19. Section 4. Spanish among the Romance languages
20. Chapter 12. Left periphery in discourse 345
21. Chapter 13. A comparative look at Focus Fronting in Romance 383
22. Index 419