The Structure of Spanish Verbless Clauses

11 pages•Published: February 23, 2017

Abstract

The variety and profusion of verbless utterances drawn from the oral corpus CORLEC has allowed to present a detailed classification of them. Verbless utterances with clausal content can be classified as clausal (non-elliptic) or non-clausal (elliptic) structures, also called fragments. Among the former, predicative verbless clauses are composed by a predicative head and the argument they select. This paper exposes the properties and structures of both verbless clauses and fragments found in the corpus, and analyses the syntactic and informational status of the NP selected by the predicative head of predicative verbless clauses.

Keyphrases: corlec, syntactic structure, topic, verbless clauses, verbless utterances

In: Chelo Vargas-Sierra (editor). Professional and Academic Discourse: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, vol 2, pages 335-345.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/k6q
	https://doi.org/10.29007/49b2

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{AESLA2016:Structure_Spanish_Verbless_Clauses,
  author    = {Oscar Garcia-Marchena},
  title     = {The Structure of Spanish Verbless Clauses},
  booktitle = {Professional and Academic Discourse: an Interdisciplinary Perspective},
  editor    = {Chelo Vargas-Sierra},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics},
  volume    = {2},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5283},
  url       = {/publications/paper/k6q},
  doi       = {10.29007/49b2},
  pages     = {335-345},
  year      = {2017}}

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