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50 Sections from Spanish se reflexives, passives and impersonals show that, after encountering a subject gap, no phrase is granted that kind of invisibility. On the contrary, the processor appropriates the first available phrase as a subject filler even if it looks like the perfect object in the typical (post-verbal) object position. I use the Spanish data to propose a new theory of gap-driven gap-filling, which complements the habitual filler-driven theory encapsulated in the wellknown Active Filler Strategy of Frazier and Flores d´Arcais (1989). Gap-driven parsing of the kind recognised here is necessary for languages, like Spanish, where obvious changes in syntactic function are not signalled by overt movement. Subject Resumptive Pronouns in Spanish Relative Clauses: Universalism or Relativism? Cerrón-Palomino López, Alvaro University of Southern California cerronpa@usc.edu The occurrence of resumptive pronouns (RPs) in relative clauses (RCs) has been approached from different theoretical frameworks, some of them arguing for a universal explanation while others for a language-specific account. Hawkins (2005), from a typologically universal point of view, claims that RPs show up within RCs across languages to ease the process of the syntactic position relativized. In contrast, Prince (1990), after studying English, Hebrew, and Yiddish RP-containing RCs, suggests that the factors triggering RP presence are due to language-specific preferences. Cross-linguistically, by taking into account the statistics of RP distribution in 24 different languages (Hawkins 2005: 189), the universal tendency of making RC processing easier seems to hold true: genitive RCs, the hardest to process, show RPs almost categorically (96%), whereas subject (SU) RCs, the easiest to process, show no RPs at all. However, Spanish, a language not considered in the survey, allows SU RPs, (Cerrón- Palomino 2005), in spite of the fact that it is the easiest position to process for the speaker. These RP occurrences are illustrated in sentences (1) and (2). (1) Tengo otras recetasi ahí, que esas sí son recetas argentinas. Have-1-sg other recipes there that those yes are-3-pl recipes Argentine “I have some other recipes there, that are really Argentine” (2) Me recetaron unas pastillasi que esasi sí son buenas. Me prescribed-3-pl some pills that those yes are-3-pl good “They prescribed me some pills that are really good.” This study, adopting a variationist quantitative framework (based on 12 hours of speech recordings of 12 Spanish speakers), shows that the motivations for the occurrence of SU RPs in Spanish RCs are different from those of RPs in the other syntactic positions, and they obey to language-specific motivations. They are not due to the processing difficulty of retrieving the function of the relativized position, but are instead a contrast marker, used to distinguish the referred entity (recipes and pills in 2 and 3, respectively) from a set of other possible subjects which, however, do not share their peculiarity (being Argentine and being good in 1 and 2, respectively). In other words, by contrasting the characteristics of their antecedent NPs with other possible referents, these RPs emphasize their antecedents’ uniqueness.
Section D: Pronouns 51 References Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro. (2005).Resumptive pronouns in Peruvian Spanish relative clauses: a variationist approach. University of Southern California. M.A. thesis manuscript. Hawkins, John. (2004) Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Molnár, Valéria (2001) Contrast from a contrastive perspective. In I. Krujff-Korbayová and M. Steedman (eds.) Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics, ESSLLI2001 Workshop Proceedings, 99-114. Helsinki: The University of Helsinki Press. Prince, Ellen (1990) Syntax and Discourse: A look at resumptive pronouns. In Hall, K., et al(eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, 482-97. Umbach, C. (2004) On the Notion of Contrast in Information Structure and Discourse Structure. Journal of Semantics, Volume 21, Issue 2, 155-175. Personal pronouns - a corpus analysis and its implications for language typology Helmbrecht, Johannes Univeristy of Erfurt ohannes.helmbrecht@uni-erfurt.de There is a long-lasting controversy about markedness hierarchies in pronominal paradigms in particular with regard to the basic values of the person category. Proposals include 1
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