TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pañeda, Claudia
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Vares, Elena
A1  - Veríssimo, João Marques
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Island effects in Spanish comprehension
JF  - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
N2  - A growing body of experimental syntactic research has revealed substantial variation in the magnitude of island effects, not only across languages but also across different grammatical constructions. Adopting a well-established experimental design, the present study examines island effects in Spanish using a speeded acceptability judgment task. To quantify variation across grammatical constructions, we tested extraction from four different types of structure (subjects, complex noun phrases, adjuncts and interrogative clauses). The results of Bayesian mixed effects modelling showed that the size of island effects varied between constructions, such that there was clear evidence of subject, adjunct and interrogative island effects, but not of complex noun phrase island effects. We also failed to find evidence that island effects were modulated by participants' working memory capacity as measured by an operation span task. To account for our results, we suggest that variability in island effects across constructions may be due to the interaction of syntactic, semantic-pragmatic and processing factors, which may affect island types differentially due to their idiosyncratic properties.
KW  - extraction islands
KW  - Spanish
KW  - reading comprehension
KW  - working memory
KW  - sentence processing
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1058
SN  - 2397-1835
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
PB  - Open Library of Humanities
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hennemann, Anja
T1  - Tal vez es x vs. Tal ves sea X. 
Construcciones de probabilidad y el uso de los modos
JF  - Romanica Olomucensia
N2  - This paper is concerned with constructions that express probability and their interaction with the indicative and subjunctive mood, as well as with other contextual elements. In detail, the paper deals with the constructions [sin duda + indicative/subjunctive], [tal vez + indicative/subjunctive], [probablemente + indicative/subjunctive] and [posiblemente + indicative/subjunctive]. In their interaction with mood, the constructions are understood as different microconstructions. For example, [sin duda + indicative] and [sin duda + subjunctive] are seen as different microconstructions of the superordinate
mesoconstruction [modal construction (of probability) + verb]. In a qualitative analysis examples from the CREA, CORPES XXI, and CdE corpora are examined regarding the interaction of [expression of probability] + [mood]. Following the Principle of No Synonymy of Grammatical Forms, the analysis confirms that the use of mood additionally influences the expressed degree of probability of the constructions. For instance, while probablemente generally expresses a slightly higher probability than posiblemente, a fine-tuned analysis
shows that the expressed degrees of probability of [probablemente + subjunctive] and [posiblemente + indicative] are highly similar. This is also often confirmed by further contextual information. In summary, the paper shows that Cognitive Construction Grammar is
a very suitable background against which to investigate modal phenomena, as cognitive approaches generally deal with the ways in which language users conceptualize the world from their own point of view, and as expressions of modality, more precisely, probability,
are also closely related to speakers’ attitudes or perspectives.
KW  - expression of probability
KW  - mood
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Cognitive Construction Grammar
KW  - qualitative analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5507/ro.2020.003
SN  - 1803-4136
SN  - 2571-0966
VL  - 32
IS  - 1
SP  - 51
EP  - 71
PB  - Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
CY  - Olomouc
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hennemann, Anja
T1  - Reporting on ‘thinking’ in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun
N2  - The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of reporting on the speakers’ thinking when both the reporting and the reported clauses originate in one and the same speaker, i.e. the performative uses of the verbs sp. creer and pt. achar (‘think’). The data are retrieved from the CdE-NOW and CdP-NOW. Adopting both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, I concentrate on reporting on thinking with and without the overt expression of the subject pronouns sp. yo and pt. eu. In doing so, the constructions (yo) creo (que) and (eu) acho (que) as well as parenthetic and right-peripheral creo yo and acho eu are studied. According to the corpus data and compared to other possible constructions with creo and acho, creo que and acho que represent the most frequent constructions if searching for the ‘node’ creo or acho, that is, if the non-use of the subject pronoun exceeds its explicit expression.
KW  - cognitive verbs
KW  - subject pronoun
KW  - discourse function
KW  - mitigation
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Portuguese
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-474455
ER  -