Quotative expansions
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Ricardo Etxepare
Abstract
Etxepare (2008, 2010) argues that Spanish quotative constructions involve a basic predicative relation between a clausal entity, characterized in cartographic terms as a Force Phrase, and a result noun expressing the concept of utterance or saying. This paper argues that the quotative predicate may be more complex than a result noun, and provides evidence that it may involve adjectival participles (akin to a participle like said), or even gerundive constructions, constructed out of the combination of a central preposition and a nominal construction expressing a saying. The paper reviews several predicative constructions involving quotative clauses, as well as a class of binominal predicative construction which has a purely quotative interpretation. The analysis of the relevant cases is based on Den Dikken’s (2006a) detailed account of this type of predicative structure.
Abstract
Etxepare (2008, 2010) argues that Spanish quotative constructions involve a basic predicative relation between a clausal entity, characterized in cartographic terms as a Force Phrase, and a result noun expressing the concept of utterance or saying. This paper argues that the quotative predicate may be more complex than a result noun, and provides evidence that it may involve adjectival participles (akin to a participle like said), or even gerundive constructions, constructed out of the combination of a central preposition and a nominal construction expressing a saying. The paper reviews several predicative constructions involving quotative clauses, as well as a class of binominal predicative construction which has a purely quotative interpretation. The analysis of the relevant cases is based on Den Dikken’s (2006a) detailed account of this type of predicative structure.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- A’-dependencies in French 1
- The irregular forms of the Italian “Passato Remoto” 17
- On the lack of stranded negated quantifiers and inverse scope of negation in Romance 59
- Evidence for the competition-based analysis of subjunctive obviation from relative and adverbial clauses in Italian 75
- Quotative expansions 93
- Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish 125
- A typology of agreement processes and its implications for language development 143
- On the syntax of focalizers in some Italo-Romance dialects 157
- The phonotactics of word-initial clusters in Romance 175
- Double object constructions in Spanish (and Catalan) revisited 193
- Cognitive economy, non-redundancy and typological primacy in L3 acquisition 217
- L1 acquisition of noun ellipsis in French and in Dutch 249
- Index 267
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- A’-dependencies in French 1
- The irregular forms of the Italian “Passato Remoto” 17
- On the lack of stranded negated quantifiers and inverse scope of negation in Romance 59
- Evidence for the competition-based analysis of subjunctive obviation from relative and adverbial clauses in Italian 75
- Quotative expansions 93
- Datives, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish 125
- A typology of agreement processes and its implications for language development 143
- On the syntax of focalizers in some Italo-Romance dialects 157
- The phonotactics of word-initial clusters in Romance 175
- Double object constructions in Spanish (and Catalan) revisited 193
- Cognitive economy, non-redundancy and typological primacy in L3 acquisition 217
- L1 acquisition of noun ellipsis in French and in Dutch 249
- Index 267
