Abstract: This study is based on the analysis of Leonese legal documents from the second half of the 13th century; and it focuses on syntax related to the placing of pronominal clitics with respect to the verb. The studied phenomena will be analysed from cartographical approach proposed by Generative Grammar to try to establish the syntactic changes that the Asturleonese language has undergone from the Middle Ages up to the present as regads word order and Information Structure.
Notes: Aspects of syntax in Leonese medieval documents
Abstract: Our aim is to contribute to the localisation of the different positions of the Subject in the Romance languages having pro-drop and more specifically in Gascon Occitan, where the effect of preverbal Subjects has been analysed âwhenever they are not interpreted as Focusâ concerning the distribution of the enunciative particles que and e in Gascon subordinated clauses. Our data allow us to check that the particle que is present in those sentences where the Subject is interpreted as Aboutness-shift Topic, while the particle e is interpreted as Familiar Topic. These data have been contrasted with the placing of clitics in Asturian in the same contexts, so that the existence of these two positions of the Subject has been corroborated, which are to be found in different points of the clausal left periphery (CP).
Notes: Title in English: Cartography of the positions of the Subject in Gascon Occitan
Abstract: The aim of this study is to contribute to the characterisation of the Subject positions mapping in the null-Subject Romance languages from the adaptation of several previous proposals prior to our own analysis of the data: Italian weak pronouns and the effect of preverbal Subjects in the placing of Asturian clitics. It is been checked that the proposals about a projection codifying the feature [Predication Subject] within the domain of Inflection are not suitable, instead Frascarelli's proposal (2007) is adapted to the derivation principle proposed by Rosselló (2000).
Abstract: This paper is placed in the framework of the comparative grammar of Romance languages, being its aim to describe the placing of pronominal clitics in Asturian-Leonese in contrast to standard Galician and European Portuguese. The description of the performance of clitics in these languages has important consequences for theoretical grammar, since it proves the validity of the theory of left periphery developed by Rizzi (1997), which allows us to consider preverbal subjects (non-quantified and non-focalised) as left dislocations (Barbosa 2000).
Notes: Syntactic behaviour of the pronominal clitics in Asturian-Leonese
Abstract: En aquest treball hem estudiat lâefecte de la planificació en textos (200 paraules aproximadament) en llengua catalana en alumnes bilingües de 2n de Batxillerat. Es pretenia determinar les diferències entre la planificació prèvia a la redacció del text (pretask planning) i la planificació durant la redacció del text (on-line planning). Lâefecte de les dues estratègies de planificació sâha mesurat en termes de fluïdesa, correcció, coherència i cohesió textuals.
Abstract: The present study consists of two Romance syntax studies related to the uses of "que" ('that') particle: exclamative "que" and recomplementation (or Complementizer doubling).
In the first study (chapter 3) we analyze the nature of the particle "que" in wh-exclamative sentences. As a result of the microparametric analysis of exclamative sentences in Romance languages, we propose a unified analysis that helps explain the derivation of exclamatives in these languages, as well as the reason why this particle is optional in Spanish but it is not in Catalan. We propose a cartography for derive exclamative sentences from two different functional projections ---Factive Phrase and Force Phrase---, which enables us to provide evidence in favour of the Haegeman's (2004, 2006) hypothesis, whereby Force is merged immediately after the Finitness Phrase is projected. In the second study, we examine the derivation of recomplementation in embedded clauses in the Iberoromance languages (Catalan, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese). After carrying out the background analysis, we focus on the description of the features of predicates that can selected such clauses. Then we analyse relevant examples of recomplementation order so to determine their function; finally we conclude that it is necessary to distinguish two types of structures: recomplementation in indicative clauses (cf. (1)) and recomplementation in subjunctive clauses (cf. (2)).
(1) Ha dit que1 els convidats (que2) estan asseguts a taula. `He/She has said that the guests are seated at the table.'
(2) He dit que1 els convidats (que2) s'asseguin a taula. `I have said that the guests (should) sit at the table.'
In (1) "que2" is used to set the boundaries between a reproduced discourse and the clausal elements that were implicit in the original discourse, which must be reintroduced in the new communicative situation because they are not shared by the interlocutor. Example (2) corresponds to an imperative clause in indirect speech, where a prominent element (e.g. a topic or a conditional clause) appears on the left periphery between the subordinating particle "que1" and the imperative indirect speech particle.
Notes: English title: CARTOGRAPHY OF RECOMPLEMENTATION IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Notes: English title: The siren sings on Costa da Morte.
Translated from: "A serea canta na Costa da Morte", in: Rosas, contos e cacións. Vigo: Galaxia, 2000.
Abstract: Complementizer doubling in the Ibero-Romance languages is a cover term for two distinct phenomena related with embedded clauses. In the first, the second complementizer (que2) is used to set the boundaries between a reproduced discourse and the clausal elements that were implicit in the original discourse, which must be reintroduced in the new communicative situation because they are not shared by the interlocutor. The second, allways in subjunctive clauses, corresponds to a jussive clause in indirect speech, where a prominent element appears on the left periphery between the subordinating particle que1 and the obligatory jussive particle que2'.
