The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects
Published on 14. October 2019
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-0-19-063479-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena.
Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to the intricacies of the language, but also to a set of challenges of linguistic theory itself, including language variation, language contact, bilingualism, and diglossia. The volume is divided into two main sections, the first focusing on Iberian Spanish and the second on Latin American Spanish. Chapters cover a wide range of syntactic constructions and phenomena, such as clitics, agreement, subordination, differential object marking, expletives, predication, doubling, word order, and subjects.
This volume constitutes a milestone in the study of syntactic variation, setting the stage for future work not only in vernacular Spanish, but all languages.
Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to the intricacies of the language, but also to a set of challenges of linguistic theory itself, including language variation, language contact, bilingualism, and diglossia. The volume is divided into two main sections, the first focusing on Iberian Spanish and the second on Latin American Spanish. Chapters cover a wide range of syntactic constructions and phenomena, such as clitics, agreement, subordination, differential object marking, expletives, predication, doubling, word order, and subjects.
This volume constitutes a milestone in the study of syntactic variation, setting the stage for future work not only in vernacular Spanish, but all languages.
Reviews / Votes
In conclusion, the enthusiasm with which this volume declares the intention of generative grammar to take an interest in the dialectal syntactic variation of Spanish is to be welcomed. The methods of this paradigm (minimal pairs, the ascertainment of impossible examples) are essential in the understanding of grammatical phenomena. * Carlota DE BENITO MORENO, REVUE DE LINGUISTIQUE ROMANE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
796 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-063479-7 (9780190634797)
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Angel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, a member of the Centre de Lingueistica Teorica, and an ICREA Academia researcher. His research focuses on areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, and Romance languages.
Content
I. European Spanish
1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian Spanish
Francisco Ordonez and Francesc Roca
2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialects
Ines Fernandez-Ordonez
3. Empty Categories and Clitics
Juan Romero
4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperatives
Julio Villa-Garcia
5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country
Aritz Irurtzun
6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish
Angel Jimenez-Fernandez and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
II. American Spanish
7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered
Angela Di Tullio, Andres Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski
8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian Spanish
Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo
9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish
Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo, Carlos Martin Sobrino, and Melanie Uth
10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview.
Ignacio Bosque and Jose M. Brucart
11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian Spanish
Jose Camacho
12. Reportative que in Mexican Spanish
Esthela Trevino
Subject Index
Language Index
1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian Spanish
Francisco Ordonez and Francesc Roca
2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialects
Ines Fernandez-Ordonez
3. Empty Categories and Clitics
Juan Romero
4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperatives
Julio Villa-Garcia
5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country
Aritz Irurtzun
6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish
Angel Jimenez-Fernandez and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
II. American Spanish
7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered
Angela Di Tullio, Andres Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski
8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian Spanish
Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo
9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish
Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo, Carlos Martin Sobrino, and Melanie Uth
10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview.
Ignacio Bosque and Jose M. Brucart
11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian Spanish
Jose Camacho
12. Reportative que in Mexican Spanish
Esthela Trevino
Subject Index
Language Index