“This book will be an extremely useful tool for researchers on Spanish syntax and semantics, and for all linguists working on sentence types and on the comparative syntax of clause types.” —Brenda Laca, University of Paris 8
“This edited volume is very significant for the field of Spanish exclamatives as well as for the wider theoretical field of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.” —Melvin González Rivera, University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez
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 throughout to 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.
Ignacio Bosque is honorary Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid and a full member of the Spanish Royal Academy.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Spanish Exclamatives in Perspective: A Survey of Properties, Classes, and Current Theoretical Issues
Ignacio Bosque
Chapter 2 Más-Support
Luis Sáez
Chapter 3 Optative Exclamatives in Spanish
Cristina Sánchez López
Chapter 4 Exclamatives in (Argentinian) Spanish and Their Next of Kin
Pascual José Masullo
Chapter 5 At-Issue Material in Spanish Degree Exclamatives: An Experimental Study
Xavier Villalba
Chapter 6 Exclamative Sentences and Extreme Degree Quantification
Raquel González Rodríguez
Chapter 7 Embedded Exclamatives and the Ingredients of Grounded Belief
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Patricia Andueza
References
List of Contributors
Index
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