Focused verbal inflections in Spanish

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Abstract

Spanish allows to focus the Number and Person features of the verbal inflection to produce an interpretation similar to that of a contrastively focused pronoun. This squib discusses two properties distinguishing both phenomena.

Keywords

contrastive focus, null subjects, inflection, Spanish

References

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Ordóñez, Francisco. 1997. Word order and clause structure in Spanish and other Romance Languages. New York: NYU dissertation.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.141

Published

2021-04-07

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