Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish
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Susann Fischer
Abstract
The aim of this paper is twofold: First, data will be presented showing that Stylistic Fronting, i.e. the movement of a past participle, an adjective or an infinitive in front of the finite verb, was productive in Old Spanish. Second, I will argue that Stylistic Fronting in Old Spanish had a semantic impact, like other left-dislocated or fronted elements in the Old Romance languages. More precisely I will show that in contrast to what has often been claimed with respect to Icelandic (cf. Holmberg 2005, among many others), Stylistic Fronting in Old Spanish is not a mere phonological displacement, but instead represents a movement that takes place in narrow syntax.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is twofold: First, data will be presented showing that Stylistic Fronting, i.e. the movement of a past participle, an adjective or an infinitive in front of the finite verb, was productive in Old Spanish. Second, I will argue that Stylistic Fronting in Old Spanish had a semantic impact, like other left-dislocated or fronted elements in the Old Romance languages. More precisely I will show that in contrast to what has often been claimed with respect to Icelandic (cf. Holmberg 2005, among many others), Stylistic Fronting in Old Spanish is not a mere phonological displacement, but instead represents a movement that takes place in narrow syntax.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
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Section 1. Left Sentence Peripheries in Old Spanish
- Chapter 1. Left Dislocation phenomena in Old Spanish 23
- Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish 53
- Chapter 3. Left forever 77
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Section 2. Syntactic variation in Modern Spanish
- Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses and the left periphery 101
- Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish 125
- Chapter 6. The left periphery of Spanish comparative correlatives 155
- Chapter 7. The article at the left periphery 185
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Section 3. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force 217
- Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure 253
- Chapter 10. Informational status and the semantics of mood in Spanish preposed complement clauses 283
- Chapter 11. Fronting and irony in Spanish 309
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Section 4. Spanish among the Romance languages
- Chapter 12. Left periphery in discourse 345
- Chapter 13. A comparative look at Focus Fronting in Romance 383
- Index 419
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
-
Section 1. Left Sentence Peripheries in Old Spanish
- Chapter 1. Left Dislocation phenomena in Old Spanish 23
- Chapter 2. Revisiting stylistic fronting in Old Spanish 53
- Chapter 3. Left forever 77
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Section 2. Syntactic variation in Modern Spanish
- Chapter 4. Spanish predicative verbless clauses and the left periphery 101
- Chapter 5. Fronting and contrastively focused secondary predicates in Spanish 125
- Chapter 6. The left periphery of Spanish comparative correlatives 155
- Chapter 7. The article at the left periphery 185
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Section 3. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Chapter 8. Evidentiality and illocutionary force 217
- Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure 253
- Chapter 10. Informational status and the semantics of mood in Spanish preposed complement clauses 283
- Chapter 11. Fronting and irony in Spanish 309
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Section 4. Spanish among the Romance languages
- Chapter 12. Left periphery in discourse 345
- Chapter 13. A comparative look at Focus Fronting in Romance 383
- Index 419
