Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives

Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax-as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects-of exclamations on theoretical grounds.

The book begins by summarizing, commenting on, and evaluating previous descriptive and theoretical contributions on Spanish exclamatives. This introductory overview also contains a detailed classification of Spanish exclamative grammatical types, along with an analysis of their main properties. Special attention is devoted in the book throughoutto the syntactic structures displayed by exclamative patterns; the differences between exclamations and other speech acts (specifically questions and imperatives); the peculiar semantic denotation of exclamative words and their relationship to quantifiers denoting high degree; the semantics of adjectives and adverbs expressing extreme evaluation; the form and interpretation of negated and embedded exclamatives; the properties of optative utterances; and the different ways in which expressive contents are related to unexpected reactions of the speaker, as well as possible knowledge shared by interlocutors.

This groundbreaking volume provides a complete and accurate picture of Spanish exclamation by integrating its numerous component parts.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ignacio (EDT) Bosque
• Mitarbeit: Ignacio Bosque (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Ohio state university press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780814213261
• ISBN: 978-0-8142-1326-1
• Seiten: 236
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Theoretical Developments in Hi; Theoretical Developments in Hi
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen > Erwachsenenbildung/Volkshochschule > VHS-/Kursmaterialien Sprache