Advances in the analysis of Spanish exclamatives / edited by Ignacio Bosque.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosque, Ignacio, editor.

Series:

Theoretical developments in Hispanic linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Exclamations.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Syntax.

Spanish language--Semantics.

Physical Description:

236 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax-as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects-of exclamations on theoretical grounds. The book begins by summarizing, commenting on, and evaluating previous descriptive and theoretical contributions on Spanish exclamatives. This introductory overview also contains a detailed classification of Spanish exclamative grammatical types, along with an analysis of their main properties. Throughout the volume, special attention is devoted to the syntactic structures displayed by exclamative patterns; the differences between exclamations and other speech acts (specifically questions and imperatives); the peculiar semantic denotation of exclamative words and their relationship to quantifiers denoting high degree; the semantics of adjectives and adverbs expressing extreme evaluation; the form and interpretation of negated and embedded exclamatives; the properties of optative utterances; and the different ways in which expressive contents are related to unexpected reacdons of the speaker, as well as possible knowledge shared by interlocutors. This ground-breaking volume provides a complete and accurate picture of Spanish exclamation by integrating its numerous component pacts. Book jacket.

Contents:

Spanish exclamatives in perspective: a survey of properties, classes, and current theoretical issues / Ignacio Bosque

Más-support / Luis Sáez

Optative exclamatives in Spanish / Cristina Sánchez López

Exclamatives in (Argentinian) Spanish and their next of kin / Pascual José Masullo

At-issue material in Spanish degree exclamatives: an experimental study / Xavier Villalba

Exclamative sentences and extreme degree quantification / Raquel González Rodríguez

Embedded exclamatives and the ingredients of grounded belief / Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Patricia Andueza.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780814213261

081421326X

OCLC:

958932413

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