INCIHUSA 20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
A Systemic Functional Micro-Grammar of Spanish Clitics
Autor/es:
VÍCTOR M. CASTEL
Libro:
Voices Around the World
Editorial:
ISFC OC, Sydney, Australia
Referencias:
Lugar: Sydney; Año: 2008; p. 7 - 13
Resumen:
The word order patterns and participant role distribution of Spanish clitics are two well-known
phenomena which have been thoroughly studied in Hispanic Linguistics from the perspective of
both formal and functional grammars. Arús (2006) is a Sydney Grammar approach to the
semantics of se but with no references to explicit realization rules or integration with the morphosyntactic
and semantic distributional properties of other clitics. Thus, there are currently no
descriptions integrating these phenomena from the viewpoint of Systemic Functional Linguistics,
let alone the Cardiff Grammar framework and the specifics of River Plate Spanish (RPS). A set of
data illustrating the two phenomena is here accounted for adequately and elegantly in terms of the
Cardiff Grammar framework (Fawcett 2000, 2008), more specifically within the new
computational version of GeneSys, the Cardiff Grammar Generator of Fawcett & Castel (2006).
The paper presents a micro-grammar capable of generating representations that capture both the
patterns constraining word order and the expression of participant roles of RPS clitics.
