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<br /><hr><b>Tesis doctoral: </b><br />Méndez Vallejo, Dunia
Catalina. 2009. Focalizing ser ('to be') in Colombian Spanish. Indiana
University (Estados Unidos), Department of Linguistics.<br />URL: <a
href="http://community.wvu.edu/~dcm031/FS%20in%20Colombian%20Spanish.pdf"
target="_blank">http://community.wvu.edu/~dcm031/FS%20in%20Colombian%20Spanish.pdf</a><br
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<infoling@infoling.list><br /><hr><br /><b>Director/a de tesis:
</b>Yoshihisa Kitagawa <br /><b>Codirectores/as: </b>Miguel Rodríguez
Mondoñedo, Ken de Jong , Manuel Díaz Campos, César Félix
Brasdefer<br /><br /><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>This dissertation
examines the syntactic configuration of the focalizing ser ('to be')
structure (FS) in Colombian Spanish. The FS has been reported in a few
dialects of Spanish (Venezuelan, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Dominican, and
Panamanian), and it is not stigmatized, despite being dialectally
marked. Although the FS has been previously studied, it is still
unclear what kind of constituents may be FS-focused and what its
structural configuration is. Thus, the purpose of the present study is
twofold: first,<br />to offer a clear and comprehensive account of the
syntactic properties of the FS; and second, to propose a coherent
theoretical analysis of the form. Based on acceptability judgments
collected from 45 Colombian speakers, I show that the FS can focus
only post-verbal elements, and that the morphology of FS ser is not
established randomly. The empirical observations gathered in this
dissertation allow me to conclude that the FS is a sentence-internal
focus structure, and that FS ser establishes morphological agreement
with the main verb in Tense and Aspect, and with contrasted
post-verbal subjects and certain direct objects in Person and/or
Number. After a careful examination of the agreement patterns shown in
FS ser, I claim that the operation Agree can account for these
agreement processes. The theoretical analysis here proposed seems to
provide a more accurate view of the FS, and to satisfactorily account
for all empirical observations. Future research should extend my
syntactic analysis in order to explore semantic, pragmatic, prosodic,
and cognitive aspects that may incur in the production and perception
of the FS.<br /><br />Inforomación de LInguist List</p><br /><b>Área
temática:</b> Análisis del discurso, Pragmática, Semántica,
Sintaxis, Variedades del español<br /><br /><b>Índice</b><br /><p><a
href="http://community.wvu.edu/~dcm031/FS%20in%20Colombian%20Spanish.pdf"
target="_blank">http://community.wvu.edu/~dcm031/FS%20in%20Colombian%20Spanish.pdf</a></p><br
/><b>Fecha de lectura o defensa:</b> 2009<br /><br /><b>Número de
págs.:</b> 370<br /><br /><b>Cómo obtener la tesis:</b> <br /><br
/><b>Correo-e del autor/a:</b>
<Catalina.Mendez-Vallejo@mail.wvu.edu><br /><br
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