Overview

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.

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Author:   Angel J. Gallego (Professor Agregat, Professor Agregat, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.818kg
ISBN:  

9780190634797

ISBN 10:   0190634790
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   14 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. European Spanish 1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian Spanish Francisco Ordóñez and Francesc Roca 2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialects Inés Fernández-Ordóñez 3. Empty Categories and Clitics Juan Romero 4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperatives Julio Villa-García 5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque Country Aritz Irurtzun 6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish Ángel Jiménez-Fernández and Mercedes Tubino-Blanco II. American Spanish 7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered Ángela Di Tullio, Andrés Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski 8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian Spanish Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo 9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Carlos Martín Sobrino, and Melanie Uth 10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview. Ignacio Bosque and José M. Brucart 11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian Spanish José Camacho 12. Reportative que in Mexican Spanish Esthela Treviño Subject Index Language Index

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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 *

Author Information

Ángel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, and an ICREA Acadèmia researcher. His research focuses on areas of theoretical syntax and linguistic variation, and Romance languages.

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