DISJOINT REFERENCE EFFECT IN SPANISH: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ABOUT A COMPLEX PHENOMENON
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.18242Keywords:
Obviation, Reference, Anaphoric Binding, SubjunctiveAbstract
In this paper I examine the disjoint reference effect (ERD) whose realiza-tion in Spanish is displayed with the presence of the subjunctive. First, I present a description of this phenomenon and its relation with the subjunctive. Then, I show a revision of the different syntactic and semantic approaches used to explain the ERD. Circumscribed to two main contemporary linguistic theories, I indicate both the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. To conclude this article, I argue we need to consider other factors such as modality and intentionality as integral elements of a proposal addressing the ERD associated to the subjunctive.
Downloads
References
Aissen, J. (1997). On the syntax of obviation. Language, 73, 705-750.
Arteaga, D. (1995). Obviation in Romance. Diachronic and synchronic perspec-tives. New York: University Press of America.
Avrutin, S. y Babyonyshev M. (1997). Obviation in subjunctive clauses and agreement evidence from Russian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 15, 229-262.
Bailyn, J. (1992). LF Movement of anaphors and acquisition of embedded clauses in Russian. Language Acquisition, 4, 307-336.
Bruhn de Garavito, J. (1997). Verb complementation, coreference, and tense in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. En Pérez-Leroux, A. T. y Glass, W. (Eds.). Contemporary perspectives on the acquisition of Spanish. (167-187). Sommerville: Cascadilla Press.
Chomsky, Noam. (1981). Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht/Cinnaminson: Foris Publications.
Chomsky, Noam. (1986). Knowledge of language: Its nature, origins and use. New York: Praeger.
Chomsky, Noam. (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Demonte, Violeta y Pascual Masullo. (1999). La predicación: Los complementos predicativos. En Bosque, I. y Demonte, V (Eds.). Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. (Vol. 2) (2461-2523). Madrid: Espasa.
Farkas, Donka. (1992). On obviation. En Sag, I. y Szabolcsi, A. (Eds.). Lexical matters. (85-109). Stanford, CA: CSLI.
Jakubowicz, Celia. (1985). Do Binding Principles Apply to INFL? En Berman, S., Choe, J.W. & McDonough, J. (Eds.). Proceedings NELSXV. (188-206). Brown University: GLSA Publications.
Juarros-Daussà, Eva. (2010). Obviation in argument structure: Spanish prepositional arguments and expanded unergatives in Italian and Spanish. En Borgonovo, C., Español-Echavarría, M., & Prévost, P. (Eds.). Selected proceedings of the 12th Hispanics Linguistics Symposium. (38-49). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Haegeman, L. (1991). Introduction to government and binding theory. Cam-bridge, MA: Blackwell.
Hale, K. (1992). Subject obviation, switch reference, and control. En Larson, R., Iatridou, S., Lahiri, U., & Higginbotham, J. (Eds.). Control and grammar. (51-77). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Haverkate, H. (2002). The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Spanish mood.Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Kempchinsky, P. (1990). Más sobre el efecto de referencia disjunta del subjuntivo. En Bosque, I. & Demonte, V. (Eds.). Indicativo y subjuntivo.(234-258). Madrid: Taurus Universitaria.
Kempchinsky, P. (1998). Mood phrase, case checking and obviation. En Schwegler, A., Tranel, B. & Uribe-Etxebarria, M. (Eds.). Linguistic Sym-posium on Romance Languages XXVII. (143-154). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
King, L. & Suñer, M. (2008). Gramática española: Análisis y práctica. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Klein, U. & Kracht, M. (2011). Direction and obviation in Plains Cree: A referent systems approach. En Reich, I., Horch, E. & Puly, D. (Eds.). Proce-edings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15. (381-396). Saarbrücken: Universaar-Saarland University Press.
Lorenzo, G. & Longa, V. (1996). Introducción a la sintaxis generativa. Madrid: Alianza Universidad.
Luján, M. (1999). A unified approach to control and obviation. En Franco, J., A. Landa, A. & Martin, J. (Eds.). Grammatical analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics. (104-130). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Macaulay, M. (2000). Obviative Marking in Ergative Contexts: The Case of Karuk’iin. International Journal of American LinguisticsIJAL, 66 (4), 464-98.
Pesetsky, D. (1982). Paths and Categories. (Tesis doctoral). MIT.
Progovac, L. (1993). Subjunctive: the (mis)behaviour of anaphora and negative polarity. The Linguistic Review, 10, 37-59.
Radford, A. (1999). Syntax. A minimalist introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reinhart, T. & Reuland, E. (1993). Reflexivity. Linguistic Inquiry, 24, 657-720.
Rizzi, L. (1997). The fine structure of the left periphery. En Haegeman, L. (Ed.). Elements of grammar: Handbook in generative syntax. (281-337). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Rochette, A. (1988). Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Romance Sentential Complementation. (Tesis doctoral). MIT.
Serrano, M. J. (2004). Entre la gramática y el discurso: las completivas con para que + subjuntivo / infinitivo en un contexto sociocomunicativo. Estudios de Sociolingüística, 5 (1), 129-150.
Suñer, M. & Padilla-Rivera, J. (1984). On the subjunctive and the role of the features of INFL: evidence from a null subject language. Ithaca: Cornell Uni-versity.
Zaring, L. (1985). The syntactic role of verbal inflection in French and Brazilian Portuguese. (Tesis doctoral). Cornell University.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Creative Commons by-nc-sa
Those authors who have publications with this journal, accept the following terms:
1. The journal is the owner of the copyright of the articles, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. that allows third parties to share the work provided its author is indicated and its first publication in this journal.
2. The authors may adopt other agreements of non-exclusive license of distribution of the version of the published work (e.g., deposit it in an institutional telematic file or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
3. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work via the Internet (e.g. in institutional telematic files or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work.
