Cortadora relative clauses

This paper focuses on cortadora relative clauses - or non-pronominal relative clauses -, a special type of relativization registered in Rio de la Plata Spanish varieties, in which the preposition is deleted or 'chopped' ('cortada'). This phenomenon is an example of preposition optionality and has be...

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Authors: Pato, Enrique|||0000-0002-6955-2861; Alba de la Fuente, Anahí
Format: Article
Publication date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:231262
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/231262
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.37
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Keyword:Cortadora relative clauses
Preposition optionality
Spanish
Portuguese
French
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description This paper focuses on cortadora relative clauses - or non-pronominal relative clauses -, a special type of relativization registered in Rio de la Plata Spanish varieties, in which the preposition is deleted or 'chopped' ('cortada'). This phenomenon is an example of preposition optionality and has been previously studied in Brazilian and European Portuguese, and French within the framework of generative grammar. The main goal of this paper is to show that this syntactic-discursive phenomenon is basically the same in all these three closely related Romance languages, following the works of Kato (2010), Valer (2008), and Tarallo (1983) for Portuguese, Bouchard (1981) for French, and Caviglia & Malcuori (2007) for Spanish. Only inherent prepositions (a, de, con, en, and por) can be deleted, and the position of the topic in Topic Phrases is the one relativised in cortadora relative clauses. The data used for Spanish examples come from the COLEM-Argentina and Uruguay corpora (COLEM: Corpus oral de la lengua española en Montreal).
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spelling Cortadora relative clauses a comparative analysis between Spanish, Portuguese and French Pato, Enrique|||0000-0002-6955-2861 Alba de la Fuente, Anahí Preposition optionality Spanish Portuguese French This paper focuses on cortadora relative clauses - or non-pronominal relative clauses -, a special type of relativization registered in Rio de la Plata Spanish varieties, in which the preposition is deleted or 'chopped' ('cortada'). This phenomenon is an example of preposition optionality and has been previously studied in Brazilian and European Portuguese, and French within the framework of generative grammar. The main goal of this paper is to show that this syntactic-discursive phenomenon is basically the same in all these three closely related Romance languages, following the works of Kato (2010), Valer (2008), and Tarallo (1983) for Portuguese, Bouchard (1981) for French, and Caviglia & Malcuori (2007) for Spanish. Only inherent prepositions (a, de, con, en, and por) can be deleted, and the position of the topic in Topic Phrases is the one relativised in cortadora relative clauses. The data used for Spanish examples come from the COLEM-Argentina and Uruguay corpora (COLEM: Corpus oral de la lengua española en Montreal). https://ddd.uab.cat/record/231262 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.37
spellingShingle Cortadora relative clauses
Pato, Enrique|||0000-0002-6955-2861
Cortadora relative clauses
Preposition optionality
Spanish
Portuguese
French
title Cortadora relative clauses
title_full Cortadora relative clauses
title_fullStr Cortadora relative clauses
title_full_unstemmed Cortadora relative clauses
title_short Cortadora relative clauses
title_sort Cortadora relative clauses
topic Cortadora relative clauses
Preposition optionality
Spanish
Portuguese
French
topic_facet Cortadora relative clauses
Preposition optionality
Spanish
Portuguese
French
url https://ddd.uab.cat/record/231262
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.37