ABSTRACT
We have seen that in Spanish we can have both preverbal and postverbal subjects and that this positional difference correlates with a different interpretation in terms of their information status. That is, while postverbal subjects are interpreted as part of the informative part of the sentence or focus, preverbal subjects are interpreted as topical. Thus, the sentence in (1) would be an appropriate answer to a question such as “What has John done” and (2) would be an appropriate answer to “What has happened?”/“Who has called?”
