Echoicity and contrast in Spanish conditionals

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• dc.contributor.author Castroviejo, Elena
• dc.contributor.author Mayol, Laia
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-24T07:10:21Z
• dc.date.available 2023-01-24T07:10:21Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract This paper is concerned with a conditional construction in Spanish, which we call echoic contrastive conditional, ECC for short. In ECCs, the consequent is entailed, the antecedent echoes the content of a previous assertion, and both antecedent and consequent are marked with a Contrastive Topic. Our goal is to fit these properties in a formal explanation compatible with a simple analysis of conditionals. We claim that ECCs are a subtype of biscuit conditional, in that antecedent and consequent are independent (i.e. do not express a hypothetical relation). Additionally, we assume that pragmatic reasoning has to explain why a conditional is used to express an adversative relation between the two clauses. First, a proposition that has already been proposed to increase the Common Ground is placed in the antecedent of a conditional in which there is no hypothetical relation between p and q. Thus, the addressee needs to reason as to the pragmatic function the speaker wants to achieve. Second, the Contrastive Topic marking signals that both conjuncts are answers to a multiple wh-question, proposed by the speaker as the current Question Under Discussion (QUD). Third, the answer provided by the second conjunct is a stronger argument for the speaker’s communicative goal than the one provided by the first conjunct. The joint occurrence of echoicity, lack of dependence and Contrastive Topic marking leads to an adversative rhetorical relation between the conjuncts.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research has been partially supported by projects MEAT - FFI2015-66732-P and CORE-IS FFI2015-67991-P, funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER, UE), projects VASTRUD - PGC2018-096870-B-100 and QUDLE - PGC2018-094029-A-I00, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MiCIU) / Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and FEDER, UE, the IT769-13 Research Group (Basque Government), and UFI11/14 (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU).
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• dc.identifier.citation Castroviejo E, Mayol L. Echoicity and contrast in Spanish conditionals. The Linguistic Review. 2019;36(4):601-35. DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2039
• dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2019-2039
• dc.identifier.doi
• dc.identifier.issn 1613-3676
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55392
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher De Gruyter
• dc.relation.ispartof The Linguistic Review. 2019;36(4):601-35
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2015-66732-P
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2015-67991-P
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-094029-A-I00
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-096870-B-100
• dc.rights © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Non-standard conditionals
• dc.subject.keyword Biscuit conditionals
• dc.subject.keyword Information structure
• dc.subject.keyword Contrastive Topic
• dc.subject.keyword Echoicity
• dc.title Echoicity and contrast in Spanish conditionals
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion