RT Book, Section
T1 Constituent order in Spanish: a Functional Grammar perspective
A1 Martínez Caro, Elena
A2 Carretero Lapeyre, Marta Begoña
A2 Hidalgo Downing, Laura
A2 Lavid López, Julia
A2 Martínez Caro, Elena
A2 Neff van Aertselaer, Joanne
A2 Pérez de Ayala Becerril, Soledad
A2 Sánchez-Pardo González, Esther
AB In typological terms, it seems clear that Spanish should be classified as a language with a dominant SVO order (see for instance Siewierska 1997:551). Despite this general assumption, constituent order in Spanish also admits considerable variation in the position of its sentence constituents, for which the language has acquired a reputation of having a fairly flexible constituent order.In this paper, I refer to the linearisation patterns which occur in Spanish as alternatives to the dominant SVO order and consider them in the light of the Functional Grammar model (as in Dik 1997), particularly in the area of special sentence positions, functional patterns and pragmatic functions. The scope of this study is the declarative main clause.Although the study of Spanish constituent order has been approached by scholars working in different linguistic frameworks, there are, to the best of my knowledge, no studies on Spanish constituent order from a Functional Grammar approach in line with those for other languages (e.g. Hannay 1991, Siewierska 1998, Stanchev 1997 and Vismans 1997).
PB Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamentos de Filología Inglesa I y II
SN 84-611-3486-9
YR 2006
FD 2006
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53625
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53625
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 dic 2025