Recomplementation as a paratactic phenomenon: Evidence from Spanish and English

IF 0.8 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
J. Villa-García, D. Ott
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Abstract

We provide a variety of empirical arguments in favor of a paratactic account of recomplementation constructions, in which a left-dislocated element appears in between two complementizers. Contrary to integrated analyses assuming Complementizer Phrase (CP) recursion or Rizzi’s split periphery, we assume that the dislocated phrase is structurally independent from the embedded clause it precedes, which in turn is an elliptical sentence fragment. The juxtaposed fragmentary sentences are linked by the doubled complementizer, which serves to overtly flag a ‘restart’ in discourse. We show that this account makes a range of welcome predictions while sidestepping non-trivial problems that arise for integrated/cartographic analyses, which assume that dislocated XPs are in left-peripheral positions (such as Spec-TopicP) and that the doubled complementizer spells out Topic0. A further advantage of the approach is that it provides a handle on recomplementation constructions beyond the core cases involving left-dislocation, which reduce to a mere subcase of the general phenomenon of elliptical ‘restarts’ in discourse.
补语作为意合语现象:来自西班牙语和英语的证据
我们提供了各种经验论证,支持对再补语结构的并列解释,其中一个左移位元素出现在两个补语之间。与假设补码短语(CP)递归或Rizzi的分裂外围的综合分析相反,我们假设错位短语在结构上独立于它前面的嵌入子句,而嵌入子句又是一个椭圆句子片段。并置的零碎句子通过双重补语器连接在一起,这有助于公开标志话语的“重启”。我们表明,该账户做出了一系列受欢迎的预测,同时避开了集成/制图分析中出现的非琐碎问题,这些问题假设错位的XP位于左外围位置(如Spec-TopicP),并且双补码拼写为Topic0。该方法的另一个优点是,它提供了对涉及左错位的核心案例之外的再实现结构的处理,这只不过是话语中椭圆“重启”这一普遍现象的一个子案例。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Linguistics (JL) has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. The journal also provides an excellent survey of recent linguistics publications, with around thirty book reviews in each volume and regular review articles on major works marking important theoretical advances. View a FREE collection of JL papers, highlighting the Journal"s broad coverage
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