Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure

This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that result from topicalization and wh-movement.

Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo is Associate professor of linguistics at the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City.

Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The EPP and the Notion of the Pole Chapter 3: Markedness Constraints on Syntactic Structure Chapter 4: Word order and Information Structure Chapter 5: Wh-Interrogatives and Word Order