Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Hispanic Studies
Second Department
Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Reader 1
Jennifer Wood
Reader 2
Meredith Landman
Reader 3
Paul Cahill
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Abstract
The Baroque-era Spanish poet Luis de Góngora is renowned for his difficult syntax, and particularly for the literary device called hyperbaton, or the stylistic inversion of normal word order. While the elaborate gongorismo style has not gone unnoticed by linguists, classical analyses of the poet’s work typically view sentence structure as one-dimensional and characterize the force of a hyperbaton by the length of an interposed phrase. Taking the sonnets of Góngora as a data set, I invoke the theory of generative syntax to argue that this apparent interposition is actually multiple instances of raising, often into specifier positions, though typically for stylistic reasons rather than for the purpose of feature-checking. Esta tesis está escrita en español.
Recommended Citation
Berendt, Elise, "Atrevimiento Sintáctico: El Hipérbaton en los Sonetos de Luis de Góngora" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 1030.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1030
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