Informaci ón sobre tesis doctoral: ZULAICA , I. Demonst rative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based approach

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Información sobre tesis doctoral:
ZULAICA HERNÁNDEZ, Iker. 2007. Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A
discourse-based approach.
Acceso a la tesis:
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi/Zulaica%20Hernandez%20Iker.pdf?osu1196826616
Más información: http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1196826616
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1. Autor:
ZULAICA HERNÁNDEZ, Iker

2. Título de la tesis:
Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based approach
2.1 Número de páginas: 272
2.2 Palabras clave: discourse anaphora, abstract objects, abstract
anaphora, demonstratives, anaphora resolution, long-distance
dependencies, presupposition, reference, events, propositions, corpus
study, proximity, spatio-temporal, anaphoric presupposition triggers

3. Fecha de lectura o defensa
2007

4. Departamento, centro o laboratorio en el que se ha desarrollado
Ohio State University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
USA

5. Director:
Prof. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

6. Proyecto o línea de investigación en el que se incluye:
Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics

7. Resumen e índice

This dissertation constitutes an exploration into the discourse
anaphoric properties of Spanish demonstrative anaphors esto eso and
aquello (cf. this/that). This basic issue, largely ignored in the
studies of Spanish linguistics so far, is fully addressed here from a
semantic and pragmatic perspective. Thus, a comprehensive corpus study
is carried out with an aim at uncovering the speaker's preferences
regarding the referential features of Spanish demonstrative pronouns
and a detailed study provided that explores into the morphosyntactic
and semantic nature of their most common abstract referents.

As these elements lack any sort of explicit ostension, Spanish
demonstrative pronouns have been traditionally considered as not
belonging in the group of deictic expressions. As a consequence of
that, only their pronominal nature has been taken into consideration
so far when applied to their discourse behavior. Here, I provide a
characterization for Spanish demonstrative pronouns as generalized
quantifiers and defend the idea that these elements still retain a
deictic component that would allow me to group them on a par with
demonstrative determiners. This deictic component that demonstrative
pronouns have, though clearly not in the form of an overt pointing act
in the canonical sense, is rather conceived of as presuppositional in
nature.

Based on the speaker's referential preferences when it comes to make use of
demonstrative pronouns to anaphorically refer in discourse to
eventualities, and attested by a corpus study carried out with that
purpose, I also defend the idea that while demonstrative pronouns esto
and eso seem to have lost any trace of a [± proximity] spatio-temporal
condition, demonstrative pronoun aquello is still marked with a [+
distal] feature. This content, which is also modeled in terms of
setting-up presuppositional DRSs for demonstrative pronouns, it also
allowed me to postulate a reduction of the tripartite system of
Spanish demonstrative pronouns into a basic binary system whereby
anaphors esto and eso would be grouped together as being unspecified
with respect to proximity and aquello being the term most frequently
used in modern Spanish to mark distance along the temporal dimension.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Introduction

2. A Survey of Abstract Objects Antecedents in Spanish
2.1 Eventualities
2.2 Nominals and Nominalization Processes
2.2.1 The Optionality of Arguments
2.3 Small Clauses
2.4 A Unified Treatment for Infinitives, Gerunds and Other
Propositional Expressions
2.5 Event Types and Discourse Anaphora
2.6 Attitudinal Objects
2.7 Attitude Reports
2.8 Proposition Anaphora

3. The Content of Spanish Demonstrative Pronouns
3.1 Demonstrative Expressions and Their Deicitic Nature
3.2 Neuter Demonstrative Pronouns as Generalized Quantifiers
3.3 A Study of Demonstrative eso in Conversation

4. A Corpus-based Study of Demonstrative Pronouns
4.1 Preliminaries
4.2 A Study of Demonstrative Pronouns in Spoken Discourse
4.3 A Study of Demonstrative Pronouns in Written Discourse

5. Discourse Anaphoric Reference and Temporal Perspective
5.1 The Co-occurrence Pattern of Tense and Demonstration in Discourse
5.2 The Deictic and Anaphoric Nature of Tense and Demonstrative Systems
5.3 Reference to Events in Discourse: A Corpus Study
5.4 A Proposal for a Reduction of the Tripartite System of Spanish
Demonstrative Pronouns

6. Conclusions and Future Prospects
6.1 Conclusions
6.2 Some Future Prospects

Bibliography

8. Correo-e del autor
<ikerzulaica at gmail.com>

9. Cómo obtener la tesis
Acceso a la tesis:
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi/Zulaica%20Hernandez%20Iker.pdf?osu1196826616
Más información: http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1196826616

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