Predicate focus fronting in the Spanish determiner phrase

X Villalba, A Bartra-Kaufmann - Lingua, 2010 - Elsevier
This article brings new evidence to the fore supporting the hypothesis that the architecture of
the DP domain mirrors that of the sentence, particularly concerning the topic–focus …

Discourse functions of fronted foci in Italian and Spanish

L Brunetti - Focus and background in Romance languages, 2009 - torrossa.com
By means of corpus data, I also intend to show that fronted foci are frequently quantified
expressions, expressions of predicative qualification, demonstrative pronouns, and …

La expresión de la estructura informativa en la sintaxis: un parámetro de variación en las lenguas románicas1.

PM Leonetti - Romanistisches Jahrbuch, 2011 - degruyter.com
Among the Romance languages, significant differences can be found concerning the
mapping of syntax into information structure, with Spanish on the one side and the central …

A multilingual annotated corpus for the study of Information Structure 1

L Brunetti, S Bott, J Costa, E Vallduví - Grammatik und Korpora …, 2011 - shs.hal.science
This paper presents a corpus of spoken narrative texts in Catalan, Italian, Spanish, English,
and German. The aim of this corpus compilation is to create an empirical resource for a …

Subject informational status and word order: Catalan as an SVO language

M Forcadell - Journal of pragmatics, 2013 - Elsevier
This work presents some qualitative findings that lead to the conclusion that Catalan is not a
VOS language, as argued by Vallduví (1993, 2002), but rather presents, prototypically, an …

Overcoming discourse-linking difficulties in aphasia: The case of clitic pronouns

S Martínez-Ferreiro, AF Reyes… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The present study aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the impact of discourse-
linking deficits on the performance of individuals with aphasia by providing new data from a …

[PDF][PDF] Pragmàtica i anàlisi del discurs

N Alturo - Treballs de sociolingüística catalana, 2011 - raco.cat
L'objectiu d'aquest article ésmostrar la relació entre els objectius generals dels estudis de
pragmàtica i anàlisi del discurs en la lingüística moderna i les línies de treball que han …

The right periphery of interrogatives in Catalan and Spanish: Syntax/prosody interactions

S Planas-Morales, X Villalba - Catalan journal of linguistics, 2013 - ddd.uab.cat
It has been reported in the literature that interrogative sentences behave quite differently
regarding subject-verb inversion in Spanish and Catalan: whereas the former allows' …

New prosodic patterns in Catalan: Information status and (de) accentability

M Forcadell - Journal of Pragmatics, 2016 - Elsevier
Catalan presents isomorphism between surface structure and prosodic pattern in the
mapping of the theme–rheme partition (information status). However, Catalan is …

Pragmatics and discourse analysis

N Alturo - Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the art and future …, 2022 - torrossa.com
The aim of this article is to show the relationship between the general goals of pragmatics
and discourse analysis research in modern linguistics and the particular goals of Catalan …