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Many scholars have been interested in researching the FS, from various linguistic perspectives. They have greatly contributed to our understanding of this form and have laid the ground for my own research efforts. Below is a list of some of these authors and their contributions to the study of the FS:
Sociolinguistic perspective Mercedes Sedano (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
Sedano, M. (1988). "Yo vivo es en Caracas: Un cambio sintáctico”. Studies in Caribbean Spanish Dialectology. R. a. M. R. Hammond. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press.: 115-123. Sedano, M. (1990). Hendidas y otras construcciones con ser en el habla de Caracas. Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Sedano, M. (1994). "Presencia o ausencia de relativo: Explicaciones funcionales." Thesaurus 49(3): 491-518. Sedano, M. (1995). "A la que yo escribí fue a María vs. Yo escribí fue a María: El uso de estas dos estructuras en el español de Caracas." Boletín de Lingüística 9: 51-80. Sedano, M. (2003a). “Más sobre seudohendidas y construcciones con verbo ser focalizador en el habla de Caracas.” Lengua, variación y contexto: Estudios dedicados a Humberto López Morales. F. e. a. Moreno F. Madrid, Arco Libros. 2: 823-847. Sedano, M. (2003b). "Seudohendidas y oraciones con verbo ser focalizador en dos corpus del español hablado de Caracas." Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 1(1): 175-204.
Tim Curnow and Catherine Travis (University of South Australia; University of New Mexico)
Curnow, J. and C. Travis (2003). “The emphatic es construction of Colombian Spanish.” In: Moskovsky, C. (ed.): Selected papers from the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, http://www.als.asn.au
(Université de Montréal)
Pato M., E. (2008). "Énfasis, motivación pragmática y creación sintáctica: El uso de ser focalizador en el español de Colombia" Congreso de la ALFAL. Montevideo, Uruguay.
Syntactic perspective (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Bosque, I. (1999). "On focus vs. wh-movement: The case of Caribbean Spanish." Sophia Linguistica 44-45: 1-32.
(Rutgers University)
Camacho, J. (2006). “In Situ focus in Caribbean Spanish: Towards a unified account of focus.” Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium., Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (University of Texas at Austin)
Toribio, A. J. (1992). "Proper government in Spanish subject relativization." Probus 4: 291-304. Toribio, A. J. (2002). “Focus on clefts in Dominican Spanish.” Structure, meaning, and acquisition of Spanish. J. G. Lee, K., and Clements, C. Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Press: 130-146.
FS in Brazilian Portuguese Mary Kato (UNICAMP)
Kato, M. A. (2008). “Clivadas sem operador no portugues brasileiro.” Brasileiro na Entrada do Século XXI: Minimalismo e Interfaces. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Kato, M. A. (2009). “VP-remnant movement in Portuguese focus constructions.” 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Tucson, AZ. Kato, M. A., M. L. Braga, et al. (1996). “Construções-Q na gramática do português falado.” Gramática do Português Falado. M. A. Kato. Campinas, Editora da UNICAMP. V.
Other contributions
Mikolajczak, S. (2003). "Os tipos das construções com clivagem em portugués." Studia Romanica Posnaniensia: 187-196. Mioto, C. (2008). “Pseudo-clivadas reduzidas em espanhol caribenho e em português brasileiro.” III Workshop on Romania Nova Montevideo. Oliveira, M. A. and M. L. Braga (1997). “On focusing sentences in Brazilian Portuguese.” Towards a social science of language: Papers in honor of William Labov. G. F. Guy, C. Shiffrin, D., and Baugh, J. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins. 2: 207-221. Wheeler, D. (1982). "Portuguese pseudo-clefts: evidence for free relatives." Regional meeting Chicago Linguistics Society 18: 507-520. |
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If you are currently working on the FS, or if you are interested in studying it, please contact me. I will be happy to learn more about your research project.
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Focalizing ser (FS) in Colombian Spanish |