El orden de palabras en cláusulas subordinadas relativas con un sujeto y un verbo transitivo

• Francisco Ocampo ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Minnesota

     University of Minnesota

     City of Minneapolis, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Perspectives in the Study of Spanish Language Variation: Papers in Honor of Carmen Silva-Corvalán / coord. por Andrés Enrique Arias, Manuel J. Gutiérrez, María Alazne Landa Arevalillo, Francisco A. Ocampo, 2014, págs. 177-200
• Idioma: español
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  • This work presents a motivation for word order variation in relative clauses formed by a lexical NP subject and a transitive verb in spoken Rioplatense Spanish. The main correlating factor for the preverbal position of the subject is the topicality of the NP referent, which is a motivation also present in simple independent sentences. However, there are also other factors that correlate with the aforementioned word order in relatives. In the data all preverbal subjects appear in non-restrictive relative clauses, which also exhibit an independent tonal group. The explanation for this behavior would be that non-restrictive relative clauses have greater syntactic autonomy, which allows them to express a sentence topic that is different from the one expressed by the main clause. This syntactic factor correlates prosodically with the presence of an independent tonal group.