1. La estructura informativa del doblado de predicados.
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Pérez, Carlos Muñoz and Verdecchia, Matías
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DATA structures , *FORECASTING , *CONTRASTIVE linguistics , *SPANISH language , *VERB phrases , *PREDICATE (Logic) , *LEXICOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper we analyze the information structure of predicate doubling in Rioplatense Spanish (e.g., Leer, leyó 'as for reading, she/he read'). We propose that in this construction the dislocated predicate functions as a contrastive topic in the sense of Büring (2003), that is, it evokes a set of alternative questions with which it contrasts. We argue that this characterization explains the "continuation effect" that predicate doubling exhibits, i.e., the fact that a predicate doubling sentence suggests a potential continuation that involves another predicate. Moreover, we show that this analysis correctly predicts the distribution of predicate doubling in embedding contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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