The syntactic variation of Spanish dialects

Author(s)

• Gallego, Ángel J.

Bibliographic Information

The syntactic variation of Spanish dialects

edited by Ángel J. Gallego

（Oxford studies in comparative syntax / Richard Kayne, general editor）

Oxford University Press, c2019

• : hardcover
• : softcover

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

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

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• NCID: BB28987663
• ISBN:
  • 9780190634797
  • 9780190634803
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 408 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PC4361
  • DC23 : 467
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Spanish language -- Syntax
  • LCSH : Spanish language -- Variation
  • LCSH : Spanish language -- Dialects -- United States
  • LCSH : Spanish language -- Dialects -- Europe
  • LCSH : Spanish language -- Dialectology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18658271