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                       Novedad bibliográfica:
    Gutiérrez-Rexach, J. 2002. From Words to Discourse. Trends in
Spanish Semantics and Pragmatics. New York: Elsevier (ISBN:
0-08-043991-8, 356 pages, US $80, 80 euros).
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                             Resumen:

    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.


                                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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