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portada Subject focus in French and Spanish
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
202
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
24.40 x 17.00 x 1.20 cm
ISBN13
9783985541935

Subject focus in French and Spanish

Alessia Cassarà (Author) · Language Science Press · Hardcover

Subject focus in French and Spanish - Alessia Cassarà

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Synopsis "Subject focus in French and Spanish"

This book investigates the realization of subject focus in French and Spanish from a comparative, variationist perspective. Building on spontaneous dialogical data, it examines the range of syntactic, prosodic, and elliptical strategies speakers use to encode narrowly focused subjects. The study draws on two highly comparable sub-corpora of spontaneous speech elicited through the same task, allowing for fine-grained cross-linguistic comparison. Adopting a Question Under Discussion (QUD) framework, it analyzes how discourse factors such as focus type, givenness, and argument structure condition speakers' choices among competing focus-marking strategies. Particular attention is paid to the alternation between full forms (e.g. clefts, postverbal subjects) and more economical elliptical answers (e.g. fragments, reduced clefts). Quantitative analyses show that subject focus realization is not free but systematically constrained by pragmatic and semantic factors, albeit differently across the two languages. The results challenge rigid form-function mappings and highlight the role of language economy in discourse. Overall, the book contributes to a more flexible typology of focus realization and to our understanding of syntactic variation in closely related Romance languages.

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