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Romero, E. y Soria, B.: en prensa, "Metonymy as a
Syntactic Strategy in Assigning Informational Prominence within the Noun
Phrase", en las Actas del XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de
Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA)
Abstract:
This paper shows how the syntactic
strategies in assigning informational prominence in clause
structures can be exploited in
phrases. The thematic approach to phrases will shed clear light on the
marked word order of elements in noun phrase (NP)
and on how this allows increasing the degree of prominence of a
component in NP. This is a general claim about different
thematic strategies in NP which, we will argue,
appear in examples of NPs marked by exchange of modifier-head syntactic
functions, or by omission and supplantation of the
head. We will concentrate on the latter, a case called “referential
metonymy”. On the one hand, referential metonymy
is better explained if considered as a syntactic strategy in assigning
informational prominence and, on the other, it is a good
example to illustrate the more general claim of
thematization in the NP. These phrasal syntactic strategies are identified
as such in context.
Key words: |
Referential metonymy, informational prominence, noun phrase. |
Subjects: |
Linguistics: Syntax
Linguistics: Semantics
Linguistics: Pragmatics
Philosophy: Philosophy of language
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Notes: |
This is just a "domestic" version
of the paper. |
Deposited by: |
Belén Soria
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21/10/2005 |
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