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  • Referential properties of Spanish noun phrases

  • María-Luisa Rivero
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / March 1975
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 32-48

  • This article discusses two aspects of definite and indefinite NP's in the grammar of Spanish: SPECIFICITY, which is formally marked by the mood of restrictive relative clauses; and EXISTENTIAL IMPORT, which derives from the linguistic environment by principles connected with presuppositions in general. Specificity and existential import belong to the grammar of Spanish, not to the realm of pragmatics. In Spanish, Donnellan's referential descriptions constitute a sub-set of specific NP's (definite specific NP's in the singular with an existential presupposition determined by the linguistic environment). Attributive descriptions, on the other hand, are singular, definite, nonspecific NP's having an existential presupposition.

  • Stress and Focus in English

  • Peter W. Culicover, Michael Rochemont
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 59 / Issue 1 / March 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 123-165

  • Sentence stress is not always a sufficient condition for interpretation as focus. An insightful analysis of the appropriate generalizations can be accommodated under a ‘modular’ approach to grammatical theory. Certain observations concerning the stress properties of WH questions are shown to be consistent with the assumptions of trace theory as developed in, e.g., Chomsky & Lasnik 1977, where the relationship between focus and stress is mediated by S-structure. The notion of focus has no consistent pragmatic characterization; it is, rather, a grammatical notion. The interpretation of this grammatical notion in particular discourse contexts is provided by rules of Discourse Grammar using the predicate ‘c-construable’, which is here defined.

  • On megalocomparison

  • James A. Matisoff
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / March 1990
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 106-120

  • 1. Joseph H. Greenberg's Language in the Americas (LIA; 1987) has been greeted with dismay by many specialists in Amerindian linguistics1 (cf. Chafe 1987, Campbell 1988, Adelaar 1989), and defended by the author in a reply to Campbell in Language 65.1 (1989).

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