Full 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.
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
