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Zulaica Hernandez, Iker.

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Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based study .

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based study ./
Author:	Zulaica Hernandez, Iker.
Description:	288 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Javier Gutierrez-Rexach.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3292709
ISBN:	9780549362821

Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based study .
Zulaica Hernandez, Iker.

Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based study . - 288 p.

Adviser: Javier Gutierrez-Rexach.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2008.

Like other demonstrative expressions, Spanish neuter demonstrative pronouns can only be fully understood when we consider their essential discourse nature. But what make these linguistic elements special when compared to other demonstratives is their very specific referential preferences. Neuter demonstrative pronouns 'esto', 'eso' and 'aquello' are commonly used in discourse to refer to a particular set of higher-order, discourse entities: the so-called abstract entities. These include propositional objects and eventualities of various types that are frequently found within sentential limits. But other times, these semantic objects stretch beyond the sentence to be only found in larger pieces of discourse. These basic issues, largely ignored in the studies of Spanish linguistics so far, are fully addressed in this dissertation. Thus, a corpus study is carried out with an aim at uncovering the speaker's preferences regarding the referential features of Spanish demonstrative pronouns and a detailed study provided that explores into the morphosyntactic and semantic nature of their most common abstract referents.

ISBN: 9780549362821Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

Demonstrative pronouns in Spanish: A discourse-based study .
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520 $a Like other demonstrative expressions, Spanish neuter demonstrative pronouns can only be fully understood when we consider their essential discourse nature. But what make these linguistic elements special when compared to other demonstratives is their very specific referential preferences. Neuter demonstrative pronouns 'esto', 'eso' and 'aquello' are commonly used in discourse to refer to a particular set of higher-order, discourse entities: the so-called abstract entities. These include propositional objects and eventualities of various types that are frequently found within sentential limits. But other times, these semantic objects stretch beyond the sentence to be only found in larger pieces of discourse. These basic issues, largely ignored in the studies of Spanish linguistics so far, are fully addressed in this dissertation. Thus, a corpus study is carried out with an aim at uncovering the speaker's preferences regarding the referential features of Spanish demonstrative pronouns and a detailed study provided that explores into the morphosyntactic and semantic nature of their most common abstract referents.
520 $a As these elements lack any sort of explicit ostension, Spanish demonstrative pronouns have been traditionally considered as not belonging in the group of deictic expressions. As a consequence of that, only their pronominal nature has been taken into consideration when applied to their discourse behavior.
520 $a Here, I provide a characterization for Spanish demonstrative pronouns as generalized quantifiers and defend the idea that these elements still retain a deictic component that would allow me to group them on a par with demonstrative determiners. This deictic component that demonstrative pronouns have, though clearly not in the form of an overt pointing act in the canonical sense, is rather conceived of as presuppositional in nature. It is still a pointing device which serves the function of directing the hearer to look for the pronoun's referent in the set of familiar discourse referents while allowing the speaker to mark it as cognitively activated.
520 $a Based on the speaker's referential preferences when it comes to make use of demonstrative pronouns to anaphorically refer in discourse to eventualities, and attested by a corpus study carried out with that purpose, I also defend the idea that while demonstrative pronouns 'esto' and 'eso' seem to have lost any trace of a [+/- proximity] spatio-temporal condition, demonstrative pronoun 'aquello' is still marked with a [+ distal] feature. This content, which is also modeled in terms of setting-up presuppositional DRSs for demonstrative pronouns, it also allowed me to postulate a reduction of the tripartite system of Spanish demonstrative pronouns into a basic binary system whereby 'esto' and 'eso' would be grouped together as being unspecified with respect to proximity and 'aquello' being the term most frequently used in modern Spanish to mark distance in the spatio-temporal axis.
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