Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives

by Ignacio Bosque (Editor)

Overview

Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax—as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects—of exclamations on theoretical grounds.
The book begins by summarizing, commenting on, and evaluating previous descriptive and theoretical contributions on Spanish exclamatives. This introductory overview also contains a detailed classification of Spanish exclamative grammatical types, along with an analysis of their main properties. Special attention is devoted in the book throughoutto the syntactic structures displayed by exclamative patterns; the differences between exclamations and other speech acts (specifically questions and imperatives); the peculiar semantic denotation of exclamative words and their relationship to quantifiers denoting high degree; the semantics of adjectives and adverbs expressing extreme evaluation; the form and interpretation of negated and embedded exclamatives; the properties of optative utterances; and the different ways in which expressive contents are related to unexpected reactions of the speaker, as well as possible knowledge shared by interlocutors.
This groundbreaking volume provides a complete and accurate picture of Spanish exclamation by integrating its numerous component parts.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814274729
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Publication date:	02/08/2017
Series:	Theoretical Developments in Hispanic Lin
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	245
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Ignacio Bosque is honorary Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid and a full member of the Spanish Royal Academy.

Table of Contents

ADVANCES IN THE ANALYSIS OF SPANISH EXCLAMATIVES

Series Editor

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Exclamatives as Speech Acts

3. A Classification of Exclamative Expressions in Spanish

4.1. WH-PHRASAL EXCLAMATIVES

4.2. OTHER PHRASAL EXCLAMATIVES

5.1.1. Wh-Exclamatives

5.1.2. Definite Article Degree Exclamatives

5.2. FOCAL AND POLARITY EXCLAMATIVES

5.3. MATRIX COMPLEMENTIZER EXCLAMATIVES

5.4. BINOMIAL EXCLAMATIVES

5.5. SUSPENDED EXCLAMATIVES

5.6. OPTATIVE EXCLAMATIVES

6.1. FEWER EXCLAMATIVE WH-WORDS IN A DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION

6.2. NO CLEFTS

6.3. NO IN SITU NOR MULTIPLE WH-EXCLAMATIVES

6.4. NO CYCLICITY

6.5. RESTRICTIONS ON EMBEDDING

6.6. RESTRICTIONS ON NEGATION

7. This Volume

1. Introduction

2. The Internal Makeup of Exclamative Phrases

HYPOTHESIS B

3. On Exclamative Phrases Containing Más

4.1. SEMANTIC PROPERTIES OF THE Є-MORPHEME

4.2. MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF THE Є-MORPHEME

4.3. MÁS-SUPPORT

5. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2.1. QUE- OPTATIVES AND SI- OPTATIVES

2.2. THE OPERATOR EX AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE LEFT PERIPHERY

2.3. OJALÁ (QUE)-OPTATIVES

3. Mood and Tense in Optatives

4. Wh-Words in Optative Sentences

4.1. WH-OPTATIVES DO NOT EXIST . . .

4.2. . . . EXCEPT FOR SPANISH QUIÉN- OPTATIVES

5. Conclusion

Introduction

2. Covert Exclamatives

3. Analyzing Covert Exclamatives

4.1. INTRODUCTION

4.2. THE SE . . . TODO CONSTRUCTION

4.3. MAL AS AN ELATIVE

5. Long-Distance Dependencies

6. Conclusions and Some Outstanding Questions

1. Introduction: Levels of Meaning in Exclamatives

2. An Experimental Approach to Exclamatives

3.1.2. Method and Procedure

3.2. EXPERIMENT 2

3.2.2. Method and Procedure

4.1. EXPERIMENT 1

4.2. EXPERIMENT 2

5. Conclusions

Appendix: Items Included in Experiment 1

1. Introduction

2. Exclamative Wh-Phrases and Extremadamente

Modifiers as Positive Polarity Items

2.1. DEGREE EXCLAMATIVES VS. AMOUNT EXCLAMATIVES

2.2. AGAINST A UNIFIED ANALYSIS

3.1. CLOSING AN OPEN SCALE

3.2. WIDENING A DOMAIN OF QUANTIFICATION

4. Further Evidence

5. Conclusions

1. Exclamatives and Embedding

2. Exclamatives and the Grounding Process

3. Subordination and Exclamative Content

4. Types of Spanish Exclamatives

4.1. WH-EXCLAMATIVES

4.4. DECLARATIVE SENTENCES

5. De Re Ascription and Spanish Exclamatives: A Survey

6. Non-Sentential Exclamatives in Embedded Contexts

7. Operator Interaction

8. Beyond Emotives

9. Embedding Non-Wh-CPs and Mixed Exclamatives

10. Conclusions

References

Contributors

Index

THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN HISPANIC LINGUISTICS

Editorial Reviews

“This book will be an extremely useful tool for researchers on Spanish syntax and semantics, and for all linguists working on sentence types and on the comparative syntax of clause types.” —Brenda Laca, University of Paris 8

 

 

“This edited volume is very significant for the field of Spanish exclamatives as well as for the wider theoretical field of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.” —Melvin González Rivera, University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez

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