On the basis of the Dynamic Syntax
framework, this paper argues that the
production pressures in dialogue determining
alignment effects and given versus
new informational effects also drive
the shift from case-rich free word order
systems without clitic pronouns into systems
with clitic pronouns with rigid relative
ordering. <br>The paper introduces assumptions
of Dynamic Syntax, in particular
the building up of interpretation
through structural underspecification and
update, sketches the attendant account
of production with close coordination of
parsing and production strategies, and
shows how what was at the Latin stage a
purely pragmatic, production-driven decision
about linear ordering becomes encoded
in the clitics in theMedieval Spanish
system which then through successive
steps of routinization yield the modern
systems with immediately pre-verbal
fixed clitic templates.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1046 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Kempson, Ruth, Cann, Ronnie |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Extern. Extern |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | InProceedings |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | brandial'06 : Proceedings of the 10th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (SemDial-10) / ed. By David Schlangen ; Raquel Fernández. - Univ.-Verl. : Potsdam, 2006. - vii, 201 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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