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Conference Presentations by Marco García García
Estudios Filológicos Alemanes, 2005
p + di que + q als Konzessivkonstruktion im Spanischen?, 2011
Papers by Marco García García
Aspectualidad – Transitividad – Referencialidad. Las lenguas románicas en contraste, 2012
This paper makes a contribution to the study of Spanish noun phrase (NP) ex-clamatives, such as ¡... more This paper makes a contribution to the study of Spanish noun phrase (NP) ex-clamatives, such as ¡Las tonterías que dicen! 'The silly things they say!'. The main purpose is to explore the relation between NP exclamatives and the notion of focus. I compare NP exclamatives with canonical focus-marking constructions such as focus-fronting constructions and cleft sentences and show that they share some crucial syntactic and prosodic features. Elaborating on both the similarities and differences between these different constructions, I argue that NP exclamatives exhibit a special kind of focus that points not to the propositional content, but rather to the relation between the propositional content and the exclamative illocution. Making use of both focus theory and speech act theory, I claim that exclamative constructions express a non-contrastive focus that indicates the presence of non-fulfilled speaker expectations.
Despite numerous theoretical approaches and empirical analyses, it is not entirely clear how diff... more Despite numerous theoretical approaches and empirical analyses, it is not entirely clear how different focus types and constructions are realized and interpreted in individual Romance languages. Due to the complexity of this linguistic area, an interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approach seems most appropriate for exploring the topic further. This introductory article gives an overview of the core problems related to focus realization in Romance, such as methodological in-congruences, differences regarding the conceptualization of focus categories, and nonobservance of diatopic variation. Moreover, it gives an outline of the present volume and situates the contributions with respect to the aforementioned issues.
In Ilja A. Seržant & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), Diachrony of differential argument marking, 209–242. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018
Ma g i s t e r a r b e i t I n s t i t u t f ü r d e u t s c h e S p r a c h e u n d L i t e r a ... more Ma g i s t e r a r b e i t I n s t i t u t f ü r d e u t s c h e S p r a c h e u n d L i t e r a t u r d e r Un i v e r s i t ä t z u K ö l n Gu t a c h t e r i n : F r a u P r o f . Dr . B e a t r i c e P r i mu s 2 0 0 1 i
Books by Marco García García
Estudios Filológicos Alemanes, 2005
p + di que + q als Konzessivkonstruktion im Spanischen?, 2011
Aspectualidad – Transitividad – Referencialidad. Las lenguas románicas en contraste, 2012
This paper makes a contribution to the study of Spanish noun phrase (NP) ex-clamatives, such as ¡... more This paper makes a contribution to the study of Spanish noun phrase (NP) ex-clamatives, such as ¡Las tonterías que dicen! 'The silly things they say!'. The main purpose is to explore the relation between NP exclamatives and the notion of focus. I compare NP exclamatives with canonical focus-marking constructions such as focus-fronting constructions and cleft sentences and show that they share some crucial syntactic and prosodic features. Elaborating on both the similarities and differences between these different constructions, I argue that NP exclamatives exhibit a special kind of focus that points not to the propositional content, but rather to the relation between the propositional content and the exclamative illocution. Making use of both focus theory and speech act theory, I claim that exclamative constructions express a non-contrastive focus that indicates the presence of non-fulfilled speaker expectations.
Despite numerous theoretical approaches and empirical analyses, it is not entirely clear how diff... more Despite numerous theoretical approaches and empirical analyses, it is not entirely clear how different focus types and constructions are realized and interpreted in individual Romance languages. Due to the complexity of this linguistic area, an interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approach seems most appropriate for exploring the topic further. This introductory article gives an overview of the core problems related to focus realization in Romance, such as methodological in-congruences, differences regarding the conceptualization of focus categories, and nonobservance of diatopic variation. Moreover, it gives an outline of the present volume and situates the contributions with respect to the aforementioned issues.
In Ilja A. Seržant & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), Diachrony of differential argument marking, 209–242. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018
Ma g i s t e r a r b e i t I n s t i t u t f ü r d e u t s c h e S p r a c h e u n d L i t e r a ... more Ma g i s t e r a r b e i t I n s t i t u t f ü r d e u t s c h e S p r a c h e u n d L i t e r a t u r d e r Un i v e r s i t ä t z u K ö l n Gu t a c h t e r i n : F r a u P r o f . Dr . B e a t r i c e P r i mu s 2 0 0 1 i