Continuidad topical en la "Estoria de España" de Alfonso X

Abstract

The study of Topical Continuity, seen as the group of referential elements (full noun, pronoun or the elision of both of them) from which the emisor achieves that a referent stays activated, has been organize mainly from the notions of ambiguity, distance and style. Nevertheless, the data lead us to a fourth factor: the structural configuration of texts, particularly the position occupied by the referential elements within the paragraphs is an aspect that determines, beyond any doubt, the use of one of the three linguistic procedures named above, and this is already shown in the oldest works in our language, even though these generally present a compact disposition irrelevant to the paragraph demarcation resources we have today: full stop, indent and initial capital letter.