dc.contributor.author
Batllori Dillet, Montse
dc.contributor.author
Hernanz, Ma. Lluïsa
dc.date.accessioned
2024-06-13T09:53:25Z
dc.date.available
2024-06-13T09:53:25Z
dc.date.issued
2013-01-09
dc.identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10256/7383
dc.identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/10256/7383
dc.description.abstract
Comunicació presentada a: The 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference: poster session, Cornell University, August 7th – 9th, 2008
dc.description.abstract
This paper offers an analysis of some emphatic polarity constructions in Spanish and Catalan from a diachronic and comparative perspective. We focus on the syntactic processes involved in the verbalization of this polarity, in both its positive and negative expression. Our main proposal is that the markers used in Spanish and Catalan (as well as other Romance languages) to reinforce polarity have acquired their status as the consequence of a focalization process. It will be argued that these elements have undergone leftward movement from their base-generated hierarchically low position to a prominent position in the left periphery of the sentence (see Rizzi 1997) and subsequently experienced a progressive bleaching of their original value (which is related to a verbal denotation) to end up being reanalyzed / grammaticalized as polarity markers
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application/pdf
dc.rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
dc.rights
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source
Contribucions a Congressos (D-FLC)
dc.subject
Gramàtica comparada i general -- Sintaxi -- Congressos
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
dc.title
Emphatic Polarity from Latin to Romance
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
