An instance of language economy in Spanish syntax: complement groups
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Keywords

complex coordination
rules breaking
communicative efficiency

How to Cite

Jiménez Juliá, T. (2019). An instance of language economy in Spanish syntax: complement groups. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 46(4), 41–51. https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2019.464.004

Abstract

Coordination has been described far more rigidly than its actual usage shows. This paper describes cases of coordination structures in Spanish that break with some commonly held ideas and show that the search for communicative efficiency in languages rises above rigid formal rules.

https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2019.464.004
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