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<br /><hr><b>Novedad bibliográfica:</b><br />
García, Erica C. 2009. The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs.
Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering. Amsterdam /
Philadelphia:
John Benjamins (Colección: Studies in Functional and
Structural Linguistics 61. Formato: Hardbound, 335 págs., ISBN-13:
9789027215703. Precio: 105,00 EUR, USD 158.00)<br /><b>Compra-e:</b>
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p> This detailed study challenges
the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the
assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized
units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic
clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive
structures are shown to be cognitively motivated, given the meaning of
the individual clitics, and the compositional/interpretative routines
those meanings motivate. The analysis accounts, in coherent and
principled fashion, for the absolute non-occurrence of some clusters,
and the interpretation-dependent acceptability of all remaining clitic
combinations: cluster acceptability depends on the ease with which the
given clitic combination can be processed to yield a congruent
message; there is no point in combining clitics whose meanings
preclude speedy processing of the cluster. The monograph goes beyond
previous work on Spanish clitics in its wealth of data, the range of
syntactic phenomena discussed, and its analytic scope.</p><br
/><b>Temática:</b> Lingüística cognitiva, Pragmática, Semántica,
Sintaxis<br /><br /><b>Índice</b><br /><p>Chapter 1. Introduction<br
/><br />Part I. The morphological roots of Spanish clitic syntax<br
/> <br />Chapter 2. The problem: unacceptable clitic clusters<br
/>Chapter 3. The communicative value of clitic reference<br />Chapter
4. Basic clitic syntax<br />Chapter 5. Variable clitic-cluster
acceptability<br />Chapter 6. Accounting for all the uses of Sp. se<br
/>Chapter 7. Accounting for the non-uses of Sp. se<br /> <br />Part
II. Clitic distribution in complex Verb-Phrases<br /> <br />Chapter 8.
The syntactic structure of AcI's<br />Chapter 9. Clitic syntax in
AcI's<br />Chapter 10. Clitic placement in AcI's<br />Chapter 11.
Complex role/referent allotment in AcI's<br />Chapter 12. Clitic
placement in AcI and their look-alikes<br />Chapter 13. Summary and
conclusions<br /><br />Abbreviations<br />Glossary<br />References<br
/>Corpus<br />Subject index<br />Author index</p><br /><b>Información
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