HOW TO MAKE THE BEST HORSE IN SPAIN? A SYNTACTICAL CHALLENGE (Cómo producir el mejor caballo de Espana? un desafio para la teoria sintáctica)

• Authors: Linde-Usiekniewicz Jadwiga
• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses some theoretical aspects of the superlative constructions of the type 'el mejor caballo de Espana', in particular their discontinuous character both within immediate constituents grammar and dependency grammars. An alternative analysis is proposed, according to which the structures in question are derived from constructions of the form of 'elegir el mejor caballo de todos los caballos de Espana', with obligatory haplology. The analysis also accounts for the alternative (specific and non-specific) readings of such phrases and shows how superlative constructions maintain their attributive character throughout the entire derivation.

Keywords

EN

DEPENDENCY SYNTAX; DISCONTINUOUS CONSTITUENTS; ELECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENTS; SUPERLATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Łodzi
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 115-121
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Linde-Usiekniewicz Jadwiga

• Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Polonistyki, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08533