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                    Novedad bibliográfica:
   Gutiérrez-Rexach, J. 2002. From Words to Discourse: Trends in Spanish
Semantics and Pragmatics. New York: Elsevier (Hardbound ISBN
0-08-043991-8, 356 pages, Price USD 80 EUR 80).
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   An area of linguistic research can be considered mature
when the validity of theoretical and empirical results is tested
cross-linguistically and when predictions from different languages
influence and modify the course of theoretical development. The
semantics/pragmatics interface poses a special challenge in this respect
because of its interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical
nature.

   This volume attempts to bridge the gap between theory and
empirical analysis by focussing on several aspects of the semantics
and the pragmatics of Spanish from a variety of theoretical points of
view. Some of the papers were selected from those presented at the
International Conference "Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish" (Ohio
State University, 1999). Others are invited contributions from leading
scholars in the field. Among the topics covered are several that have
been the subject of intense debate, whereas others represent subtle data
patterns not considered so far.

   The topics include the proper characterization of tense and aspect,
the subjunctive, verbal periphrases, stage/individual level predication,
the interpretation of infinitives in embedded and adjunct clauses, the
subjunctive mood, demonstratives, quantification of excess, exception
phrases, binding phenomena, propositional negative polarity items,
particles of politeness, and pronominal doubling. Overall, the analysis
of these subjects contributes new findings to prominent theories in the
field, such as possible world semantics, relevance theory, mental
spaces, type coercion, generalized quantifier theory, dynamic semantics,
and the theory of Logical Form.


                      TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Introduction (J. Gutiérrez-Rexach).
- Spanish past and future tenses: less (semantics) is more (S.
  Gennari).
- Tensed complements of perception verbs: issues in their temporal
  interpretation (A. Cipria).
- Spanish 'aspectual' periphrases: ordering constraints and the
  distinction between situation and viewpoint aspect (B. Laca).
- Non-declarative sentences in Spanish: the case of the infinitive
  (X.R. Sequeiros).
- Aspect and situations: a situation semantics account of the
  semantic variability of Spanish 'al-clauses'
  (L. Alonoso-Ovalle).
- Mental spaces and epistemic attitudes: on the Spanish
  subjunctive/indicative alternation (F. Aliaga, E.
  de Bustos).
- Space accessibility and the pragmatic status of propositions (E.
  Mejías-Bikandi).
- Coercion and the stage/individual distinction (V. Escandell-Vidal,
  M. Leonetti).
- Some Spanish quantifier modifiers (R. Zuber).
- Demonstratives in context ((J. Gutiérrez-Rexach).
- Propositional NPIs and the scalar nature of polarity (J.
  Gutiérrez-Rexach, S. Schwenter).
- Degree quantification and modal operators in Spanish (I. Bosque).
- The shifted reading of the Spanish simple past as dependent on
  presuppostion accommodation (R.J. Garcia Córdoba).
- On the interaction of syntax-semantics-pragmatics: a case study
  (J. Macià).
- Clitic doubling, null objects and clitic climbing in the Spanish
  of Corrientes (L. Colantoni).
- Spanish no, si,: a particle of politeness (R. Vann et al.).

  Name index.
  Subject index.


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