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Band 29:: Gupton, Timothy: The Syntax-Information Structure Interface. Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician. XVIII/290 S. - Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2014.
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It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of generative grammar, there is still uncertainty with respect to the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of languages. According to canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are arguments (A-elements). However, following non-canonical analyses, preverbal subjects are not arguments, but rather A’-elements that behave like topical preverbal direct and indirect objects, which have received a CLLD analysis in the literature (e.g. Cinque 1990). The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverbal subjects are non-arguments, one must question the universality of the EPP (as in e.g. Alexiadou & Agnostopoulou 1998), as well as its associated features and feature-strengths.

Galician is an underdocumented Romance language within the generative paradigm. In this book, I develop an experimental program for establishing clausal word order preferences for a number of information structure contexts. The preference data suggest that preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not CLLD elements. These results inform the model of the preverbal field that I propose for Galician, which also takes into account the enclisis-proclisis divide and reco.

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List of Tables and Figures		S. XIII
Preface		S. XVII

1.	Introduction	S. 1
2.	The interaction between syntax and information structure	S. 18
3.	Methodology	S. 109
4.	Statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative measures	S. 139
5.	Toward a Left-peripheral Syntactic Analysis of Galician	S. 183
6.	Appendix A: Linguistic questionnaire for initial tasks	S. 248
7.	Appendix B: Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task	S. 252
8.	Appendix C: Task 2: Word order preference task	S. 259
9.	Appendix D: Task 3: Recorded field interview	S. 267
10.	Appendix E: Follow-up WPT: for narrow-focus in Task 2	S. 268

References		S. 274

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List of Tables and Figures			S. XIII
Preface			S. XVII

1.	Introduction		S. 1
1.1.		A brief socio-linguistic history of Galician	S. 1
1.2.		The sociolinguistic situation in Galicia	S. 3
1.3.		Interface instability in bilinguals	S. 11
1.4.		Syntactic framework – assumptions	S. 13
2.	The interaction between syntax and information structure		S. 18
2.1.		Argument vs. Non-argument positions in syntax	S. 18
2.2.		Syntactic tests for arguments and non-arguments	S. 21
2.3.		The analysis of subjects as non-arguments in Spanish	S. 24
2.4.		Analyses of Spanish preverbal subjects as canonical arguments	S. 38
2.5.		The debate on subjects in European Portuguese	S. 42
2.6.		Taking stock of preverbal subject analyses	S. 61
2.7.		Preverbal subjects in Galician	S. 62
2.8.		Syntactic structures in context	S. 66
2.9.		Syntactic accounts of the syntax-information structure interface	S. 83
2.10.		Establishing clausal structure in Galician	S. 105
2.11.		Summary	S. 106
3.	Methodology		S. 109
3.1.		Preliminary concerns	S. 109
3.2.		Participants: Tasks 1 and 2	S. 111
3.3.		Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task	S. 118
3.4.		Task 2: Word Order Preference Task	S. 129
3.5.		Task 3: Recorded field interview	S. 136
3.6.		Conclusion	S. 138
4.	Statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative measures		S. 139
4.1.		Introduction	S. 139
4.2.		Task 1	S. 139
4.3.		Task 2	S. 150
4.4.		Follow-up task for Task 2	S. 159
4.5.		Task 3 results	S. 162
4.6.		Summary and discussion: quantitative measures	S. 171
4.7.		Final methodological considerations	S. 179
5.	Toward a Left-peripheral Syntactic Analysis of Galician		S. 183
5.1.		Introduction	S. 183
5.2.		Main-clause cliticization in Galician	S. 185
5.3.		Main clause preverbal elements in Galician	S. 196
5.4.		Extending the left periphery: subordinate clause phenomena in Galician	S. 207
5.5.		Extending the left-periphery: recomplementation	S. 213
5.6.		Subject positions in Galician	S. 225
5.7.		Affective phrases and preverbal subjects in Galician	S. 229
5.8.		Subject positions and information structure in López (2009)	S. 233
5.9.		The A vs. Ā debate revisited	S. 241
5.10.		Summary	S. 242
5.11.		Concluding remarks	S. 244
6.	Appendix A: Linguistic questionnaire for initial tasks		S. 248
7.	Appendix B: Task 1: Appropriateness Judgment Task		S. 252
7.1.		Condition A: Thetic contexts	S. 252
7.2.		Condition B: Discourse-old subject (subordination)	S. 253
7.3.		Condition C: Discourse-old object (subordination)	S. 254
7.4.		Condition D: Discourse-old subject (coordination)	S. 254
7.5.		Condition E: Discourse-old object (coordination)	S. 256
7.6.		Condition F: Subject narrow-focus (rheme)	S. 256
7.7.		Condition G: Object narrow-focus (rheme)	S. 257
8.	Appendix C: Task 2: Word order preference task		S. 259
8.1.		Instructions and Practice Items	S. 259
8.2.		Contexto 1: Universidade	S. 260
8.3.		Contexto 2: A entrevista sobre o restaurante	S. 261
8.4.		Contexto 3: Unha mudanza de pesadelo	S. 262
8.5.		Contexto 4: Unha noite de festa	S. 263
8.6.		Contexto 5: O escándalo	S. 264
8.7.		Contexto 6: A tenda de animais	S. 265
9.	Appendix D: Task 3: Recorded field interview		S. 267
9.1.		Interview A: Questions for young participants	S. 267
9.2.		Interview B: Questions for older participants	S. 267
10.	Appendix E: Follow-up WPT: for narrow-focus in Task 2		S. 268
10.1.		Cuestionario lingüístico	S. 268
10.2.		Condition 1: Subject narrow focus (SV vs. VS)	S. 268
10.3.		Condition 2: Object narrow focus (SVO vs. VSO)	S. 269
10.4.		Condition 3: Object narrow focus (SVO vs. VOS)	S. 271
10.5.		Condition 4: Object narrow focus (VSO vs. VOS)	S. 272

References			S. 274

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