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2. Consequences of the comparative fallacy for the acquisition of grammatical aspect in Spanish.
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Diaubalick, Tim and Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro
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SPANISH language ,SECOND language acquisition ,GRAMMATICALITY (Linguistics) ,GRAMMAR ,NATIVE language ,PAST tense (Grammar) ,INTERLANGUAGE (Language learning) ,FOREIGN language education - Abstract
This paper tackles the usefulness of comparing L2 learners against native speakers in empirical SLA studies focusing on grammatical aspect. Adapting the view that interlanguage grammars should be analysed in their own right instead of as a deficient form of the target, we show that expressing perspectivity (fulfilled by grammatical aspect markers) methodologically complicates the analyses of Grammaticality Judgment Tasks in aspect studies. For Spanish past tenses, we show that especially with items constructed as allegedly ungrammatical natives behave heterogeneously. This casts doubt on the question whether these data can be used as a baseline against which learners' data could be compared. By analysing the interlanguage separately (not only in comparison to the controls), our findings among German learners of L2 Spanish suggest the use of the forms depends essentially on temporal markers which can be related to both their L1 lacking grammatical aspect and the pedagogical input. Crucially, though the interlanguage does not match the target (i.e., past tenses do not necessarily correlate with aspectuality), the systems are not chaotic but follow well-defined rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Development of Clause Complexity in Children with Specific Language Impairment/Language Development Disorder: A Longitudinal Study.
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Araya, Claudia, Coloma, Carmen Julia, Quezada, Camilo, and Benavente, Paula
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EXPERIMENTAL design ,STATISTICS ,PHONOLOGICAL awareness ,ANALYSIS of variance ,COMPARATIVE grammar ,MANN Whitney U Test ,LANGUAGE acquisition ,SPANISH language ,COMPARATIVE studies ,RESEARCH funding ,SCHOOL children ,DATA analysis software ,DATA analysis ,LANGUAGE disorders ,LONGITUDINAL method ,CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper addresses the grammatical challenges associated with the development of clause complexity, focusing on the performance of a group of monolingual Spanish-speaking schoolchildren with Specific Language Impairment/Developmental Language Disorder (SLI/DLD) in a longitudinal corpus of oral narrative samples. The study examines the presence of interclause relations of subordination and equivalence (hypotaxis and parataxis) in language samples of two groups: an experimental group made up of 24 schoolchildren with SLI/DLD and a control group made up of 24 schoolchildren with typical development (TD). The results show that while both groups use parataxis as the most common relation between clauses in all school grades, there is a significant decrease in paratactic relations and a significant increase in hypotactic relations from first to fourth grade of primary education. Although the development patterns are highly similar, the SLI/DLD group shows greater difficulties in mastering more complex (hypotactic) relations in fourth grade compared to the control group, indicating that it is less sophisticated in the use of these types of complex relations. These findings suggest that focused support on the most complex structures is needed towards the fourth grade of primary education, given the demands of the school academic register from 6 and 7 years of age and the potential problems that the development of clause complexity can cause in school-age children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. EDUCACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA ESCOLAR EN CHILE EN EL SIGLO XIX: CLAVES EXTERNAS.
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González Jiménez, Juan Miguel
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SPANISH language ,TEACHER training ,HISTORY of education ,SOCIAL context ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
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- 2023
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5. Aportaciones de la diacronía a la enseñanza de la morfología léxica en el aula.
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Buenafuentes de la Mata, Cristina
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SPANISH language ,CONCEPT learning ,SPANISH literature ,SECONDARY education ,CURRICULUM ,COMMUNICATIVE competence - Abstract
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- 2022
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6. Students' errors in L1 Spanish grammar from the perspective of formal linguistics.
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Bravo, Ana
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FORMAL languages ,SPANISH language ,GRAMMAR ,MATHEMATICS ,LITERACY - Abstract
This paper studies the role that knowledge about formal linguistics can play in teacher education. In order to do so, this contribution focuses on specific secondary students' errors and misconceptions when confronted with L1 explicit grammar instruction. Errors are measured with respect to a formal theory of grammar. The rationale for developing this research is that certain aspects of formal theories, such as constituency, recursion, dependency and compositionality function not only are the building blocks of the utterances, but are also needed for speech processing. If this is the case, acquiring them correctly might be helpful for enhancing literacy, since the very same notions are at the core of both the construction and the understanding of any text. As a second issue, the present paper addresses the question of how the absence of such knowledge models the perspective from which students' errors are evaluated by the teachers. Errors are described following the theories for analyzing errors in mathematics. A side effect of this approach is that the parallelism between errors made in learning mathematics and in learning the grammatical concepts just mentioned allows broadening the perspective from which the latter is approached. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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7. Aproximación a los conocimientos gramaticales del profesorado de secundaria.
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RECIO DIEGO, ÁLVARO and TOMÉ CORNEJO, CARMELA
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MORPHOSYNTAX ,COMMUNICATION ,LINGUISTICS ,LANGUAGE & languages ,SPANISH language - Abstract
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- 2023
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8. Los tiempos verbales en la ejemplificación gramatical de la primera mitad del siglo XIX.
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Escudero Paniagua, Francisco
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TENSE (Grammar) ,NATIVE language ,SPANISH language ,NINETEENTH century ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
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- 2022
9. Morfología sincrónica: aportaciones de la descripción morfológica a la Didáctica de la Lengua.
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Cano Cambronero, Maria Ángeles
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SPANISH language ,SECONDARY education ,TEXTBOOKS ,PUBLISHING ,MORPHOLOGY ,CLASSROOMS - Abstract
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- 2022
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10. LA TERMINOLOGÍA GRAMATICAL EN SECUNDARIA Y BACHILLERATO. VENTAJAS E INCONVENIENTES DIDÁCTICOS DE ALGUNOS CONCEPTOS GRAMATICALES ANTIGUOS Y MODERNOS.
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Bosque, Ignacio and Gallego, Ángel J.
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LINGUISTICS ,SPANISH language ,SPANISH literature ,COMPARATIVE linguistics ,LEXICOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2021
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11. SOBRE LA SINTAXIS DE LAS ORACIONES DE RELATIVO: UN ANÁLISIS DE ADJUNCIÓN CON ESTRUCTURA COMPARTIDA.
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Krivochen, Diego Gabriel
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RELATIVE clauses , *SPANISH language , *GRAMMAR , *TREES , *RELATIVES - Abstract
In this paper we examine existing analyses for (restrictive) relative clauses and propose an analysis for Spanish relatives from the perspective of a lexicalised Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG). We will provide a summary of the main proposals in the literature and examine the questions that any analysis of relative clauses should address. Our TAG approach synthesises the descriptive and theoretical advantages of existing models (the head external analysis, the raising analysis, and the matching analysis) and offers a solution to some of the main problems that have been observed in the literature. We will focus on the internal configuration of relative clauses, their structural position, and the category of the expression que in Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. Multifuncionalidade de aun/aún e todavía no espanhol peninsular.
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FONTES, Michel Gustavo
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FUNCTIONAL discourse grammar ,SPANISH language ,MATERIALS analysis ,GRAMMAR ,INVESTIGATIONS - Abstract
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- 2020
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13. VIOLACIÓN DE LAS NORMAS LINGÜÍSTICAS EN LAS EXPRESIONES IDIOMÁTICAS.
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Trivić, Aneta G. and Lončar, Ivana B.
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IDIOMS ,GRAMMAR ,SPANISH language ,DIME ,HYPERBOLE ,LEXICAL access ,SCHEMAS (Psychology) - Abstract
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- 2020
14. Alternative guidelines to design pedagogical resources with compounds in Spanish as a second language.
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MARQUETA GRACIA, BARBARA
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SPANISH language ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,GUIDELINES ,COMPREHENSION - Abstract
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- 2020
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15. La perífrasis soler + infinitivo a la luz del latín (I): Soleo, el origen latino del auxiliar soler.
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Cabré Lunas, Laura
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SPANISH language ,LINGUISTICS ,PERIPHRASIS ,SEMANTICS ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
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- 2019
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16. La perífrasis soler+infinitivo a la luz del latín (II): Lecturas y valores de soleo+INFINITIVO.
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Artigas Alvarez, Esther
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PERIPHRASIS ,SPANISH language ,LINGUISTICS ,SEMANTICS ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
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- 2019
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17. Electronic Mail in Foreign Language Writing: A Study of Grammatical and Lexical Accuracy, and Quantity of Language.
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Gonzälez-Bueno, Manuela and Pérez, Luisa C.
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EMAIL systems ,SECOND language acquisition ,GRAMMAR ,SPANISH language ,VOCABULARY ,TELEMATICS ,LINGUISTIC informants ,STUDENTS ,MODERN languages - Abstract
The article presents the study that observed the effects of dialogue journaling via electronic mail on the language produced by learners of Spanish as a second language, compared with the traditional version of the technique which is the paper-and-pencil to know whether electronic mail affects grammatical accuracy, appropriate use of vocabulary, and language productivity. The grammar and vocabulary accuracy, and the language quality produced via computer-mediated communication was analyzed. Male and female English native speakers, ages 19-25 participated in the study. They were divided into experimental and control groups and were asked to write messages to their instructors. The students believed this survey helped improve their foreign language learning and attitude towards Spanish.
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- 2000
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18. Caracterización alofónica del grupo fonémico /...ɾ/ en el habla no-estándar de Chile en situación de lectura en voz alta y de entrevista semiespontánea.
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Araneda Beltrán, Alejandra, Soto-Barba, Jaime, Pereira Pereira, Daniel, and Figueroa Candia, Mauricio A.
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SPANISH language ,PERIPHRASIS ,GRAMMAR ,PHONEMICS ,SECONDARY education - Abstract
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- 2019
19. Gramaticalización y diacronía de las perífrasis comenzar a y empezar a + INFINITIVO.
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Hernández Díaz, Axel
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INFINITIVE (Grammar) ,SPANISH language ,PERIPHRASIS ,GRAMMAR ,LATIN language - Abstract
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- 2019
20. Algo anda ocurriendo: variación diatópica de andar + GERUNDIO.
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Nieuwenhuijsen, Dorien
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SPANISH language ,PERIPHRASIS ,GRAMMAR ,VERBS ,NAHUATL language - Abstract
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- 2019
21. Deriving individual-level and stage-level psych verbs in Spanish.
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Fábregas, Antonio and Marín, Rafael
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SPANISH language ,VERBS ,GRAMMAR ,PSYCHOLOGY ,LANGUAGE classification - Abstract
Aspectual notions, although displayed most clearly in verbs, manifest across categories, with notions like (un)boundedness manifesting themselves in several instantiations which are sometimes specific of individual grammatical categories. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on how aspectual notions emerge in different categorial domains by an analysis of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer psychological predicates (SEPVs and OEPVs, respectively). We review the evidence that SEPVs denote individual level (IL) states, and provide new facts - taken from the behaviour of participles - in favour of that diagnostic; we also argue that OEPVs should be classified as states of the stage level (SL) class. We argue that OEPVs denote states with an onset, which corresponds to the denotation of SLs. SEPVs simply denote states without boundaries, which we argue to correspond to IL predicates. Finally, we show how these two denotations follow without further assumptions from the structures proposed for SEPVs and OEPVs in previous work, specially Pesetsky (1995), making it unnecessary to postulate that the distinction is of lexical nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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22. El aporte de don Andrés Bello a la linguística y filología modernas.
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Cartagena, Nelson
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LINGUISTICS ,PHILOLOGY ,GRAMMAR ,SPANISH language - Abstract
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- 2014
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23. Entre "textos (de autores) menores" y partes "azesorias" de la oración: la conjunción en la gramática escolar (1780-1830).
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Martín Gallego, Carolina
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TEXTBOOKS ,TRACE elements ,SPANISH language ,PARTS of speech ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
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- 2018
24. EL EFECTO DE REFERENCIA DISJUNTA EN PASIVAS CON SER Y ESTAR.
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GARCÍA-PARDO, ALFREDO
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ESTAR (The Spanish word) ,SPANISH language ,VERBS ,ADJECTIVES (Grammar) ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
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- 2018
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25. The differential representation of number and gender in Spanish.
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Fuchs, Zuzanna, Polinsky, Maria, and Scontras, Gregory
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SPANISH language ,GENDER ,NUMBER (Grammar) ,GRAMMAR ,SYNTAX (Grammar) - Abstract
This paper investigates the geometry of phi-features, with a special emphasis on number and gender in Spanish. We address two sets of questions: (i) are number and gender bundled together or do they constitute separate categories, and (ii) does the internal feature composition of number and gender follow a single- or a multi-valued system? Given the lack of consensus on these issues based on primary data, we approach these questions experimentally, using the phenomenon of agreement attraction: a situation in which ungrammatical sequences are perceived as grammatical when one of the NPs is erroneously identified as determining agreement. Our results offer novel support in favor of an agreement model in which number and gender are in separte projections and are valued independently. In addition, our results indicate that number but not gender in Spanish is multi-valued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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26. Convergências e divergências do processo de gramatização nas línguas portuguesa e espanhola.
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Silveira de Araujo, Leandro
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PORTUGUESE language , *SPANISH language , *NINETEENTH century , *GRAMMAR , *RESEARCH institutes , *FIFTEENTH century , *BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases - Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the elaboration of grammars for the Portuguese and Spanish languages, describing textual and extratextual aspects that characterize this process in the respective linguistic traditions and comparing them in order to find points of convergence and divergence. For that purpose, by consulting the physical and electronic collections of different research centers, it was possible to build a bibliographic corpus which allowed the fulfillment of the study's objective based on the analysis of 172 Portuguese and 138 Spanish grammars distributed since the 15th century. As a result, it was possible to observe that both codification traditions bring historical compatibilities which resulted in a process of linguistic normalization in which many features converge, while others diverge. They converge, for instance, in the intensification of this process from the 19th century onwards, marking a movement of constant growth. They diverge, on the other hand, in the number of countries engaged in the process and in the relation of school grammar to the descriptive model, for instance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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27. A PROPÓSITO DE LA GRAMÁTICA HISTÓRICA DE LAS LENGUAS CASTELLANA Y CATALANA (1884), DE IGNASI FERRER I CARRIÓ.
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I MESSALLES, MAR MASSANELL
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CATALAN language ,SPANISH language ,GRAMMAR ,JOURNALISTS ,LIBRARY media specialists ,HISTORIOGRAPHY ,TEACHERS ,ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics - Abstract
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- 2022
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28. Creencias epistemológicas de futuros maestros sobre la enseñanza de la gramática orientada al desarrollo de competencias.
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Rodríguez Muñoz, Francisco J. and Martín Vegas, Rosa Ana
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COMMUNICATIVE competence ,DELPHI method ,SPANISH language ,PRIMARY education ,STUDENT development - Abstract
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- 2024
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29. New Approaches to Spanish Dialectal Grammar: Guest Editor's Introduction.
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Pato, Enrique
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SPANISH language ,GRAMMAR ,UNIVERSAL language ,VARIATION in language ,NATIVE language ,SECOND language acquisition - Abstract
This document provides an introduction to new approaches in Spanish dialectal grammar. It discusses linguistic variation and how it is accounted for in different frameworks, as well as the different varieties of the Spanish language based on acquisition and contact with other languages. The concept of vernacular universals is introduced, which are common features found in vernacular varieties of languages. The document also examines dialectal variation in Spanish and highlights specific linguistic features that are diagnostic of different types. It discusses the concept of late insertion in syntactic models, specifically the Distributed Morphology model, which explains how syntax builds structures by combining abstract features and then interpreting and pronouncing them. The importance of studying dialectal grammar and variation in language is emphasized, and a special issue is presented that explores various dialectal grammatical phenomena in Spanish. The contributions in the special issue cover topics such as pronoun distribution, morphological and syntactical phenomena, emphatic use of adjectives, variation in discursive structures, and syntactic constructions with verbs. The document concludes by emphasizing the need to include vernacular usages in grammatical analysis and understanding. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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30. Contextual Congruence Tense-Demonstration in Spanish: A Temporal Discourse Model-Based Account.
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Zulaica-Hernández, Iker
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GRAMMAR ,SPANISH language ,LINGUISTICS ,CONTEXTUAL analysis ,CONTEXT effects (Psychology) - Abstract
In the Spanish grammatical tradition, it was long noticed that certain demonstratives and tenses show a high degree of concomitance in Peninsular Spanish written and spoken discourse. Nevertheless, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon had not been exhaustively described or quantified to date. The purpose of this paper is to test whether the alleged correlation tense-demonstratives can be sustained on empirical grounds and an adequate explanation be provided for this phenomenon. Based on a detailed analysis of naturally occurring examples from a corpus of modern Spanish I draw three principal conclusions. First, the aforementioned correlation actually occurs but it is restricted to the distal demonstrative element aquel in both determiner and pronominal forms, whereas the other two demonstrative elements este and ese do not show any particular preferences regarding the tenses they are combined with in discourse. Secondly, the phenomenon is restricted to cases of temporal deixis whereby the demonstrative is used to refer to times. Finally, and more importantly, a necessary condition for the use of the demonstrative aquel as a temporal deictic element lies in that it requires a past time linguistic expression in its immediate textual environment. Thus, the observed correlation tense-demonstration should be more accurately referred to as the contextual congruence past_ time-aquel in Peninsular Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
31. On the reality of constructions: The Spanish reduplicative-topic construction.
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Valenzuela, Javier, Hilferty, Joseph, and Garachana, Mar
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SPANISH language ,COMPARATIVE grammar ,GRAMMAR ,CONSTRUCTION grammar ,LINGUISTICS ,SEMANTICS - Abstract
In the present paper, we adduce further evidence for the reality of grammatical constructions by focusing on a highly idiosyncratic configuration from Spanish, which we call the reduplicative-topic construction. This construction is a productive syntactic pattern that functions as a “constructional hedge”. The grammatical behaviors of this construction cannot be captured by syntactocentric approaches to grammar. Instead, co-ocurring multiple constraints must be taken into account, including phonological (intonation and rhythm), morphosyntactic and semantic factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
32. 'On the grammar of death': the construal of death and killing in Colombian newspapers.
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García Marrugo, Alexandra
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GRAMMAR ,LEXICON ,SPANISH language ,SEMIOTICS ,SEMANTICS - Abstract
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, following Halliday's 1998 paper 'On the grammar of pain', this study maps the lexicogrammatical resources available to Spanish speakers in the register of hard news to construe death and killing. Based primarily on a 250,000+ corpus of news reports of violent actions by illegal armed groups in the internal conflict from four major Colombian newspapers, it distinguishes between congruent and metaphorical construals of death, accounting for the different roles of the participants involved in these different types of constructions. In addition, it offers a topological perspective of the intersection of the more delicate distinction of process types and the system of Agency. The second objective is to apply these findings to contrast the construal of violence by the actors in the conflict, Marxist guerrillas and right wing paramilitaries. The results of the analysis show how the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources construes different semiotic spaces, highlighting the role of one group while diminishing the responsibility of the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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33. La formación lingüística para el magisterio: las Contestaciones sumarias a los programas de gramática de Cervera y Royo (1898).
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García Folgado, María José
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SPANISH language ,TEACHER training ,OUTLINES ,GRAMMAR ,TEACHERS ,SPANISH-American War, 1898 - Abstract
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- 2017
34. Narrow presentational focus in heritage Spanish and the syntax-discourse interface.
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Hoot, Bradley
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BILINGUALISM ,SECOND language acquisition ,GRAMMAR ,MONOLINGUALISM ,SPANISH language - Abstract
The grammars of bilinguals have been found to differ from those of monolinguals especially with regard to phenomena that involve the interface of syntax and discourse/pragmatics. This paper examines one syntax-discourse interface phenomenon - presentational focus - in the grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish. The results of a contextualized acceptability judgment task indicate that lower proficiency heritage speakers show some variability in the structures they accept to realize focus, whereas higher proficiency heritage bilinguals pattern with monolinguals. These results suggest that some explanations of domainspecific vulnerability in bilingual grammars, including the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2011), may need to be revised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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35. Interferencia y convergencia sintácticas e isogramatismo amplio en el español paraguayo.
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Granda, Germán De
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INTERFERENCE (Linguistics) ,GRAMMAR ,SYNTAX (Grammar) ,SPANISH language ,GUARANI language ,BILINGUALISM - Abstract
In this paper, a brief discussion of the terminology of contact phenomena is offered. The author proposes the use of interference and convergence associated with the concept of isogrammatism in order to deal with contact situations such as the one occurring in Paraguay between Spanish and Guarani. In connection with earlier papers on the topic by other scholars and by the same author, a detailed analysis of cases illustrating the interference and convergence of Paraguayan Spanish at the syntactic level is presented Awareness of the sociohistoric conditions under which the bilingual situation in Paraguay arose underlies the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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36. The differential representation of number and gender in Spanish.
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Fuchs, Zuzanna, Polinsky, Maria, and Scontras, Gregory
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SPANISH language ,GENDER ,NUMBER (Grammar) ,COMPARATIVE grammar ,GRAMMAR - Abstract
This paper investigates the geometry of phi-features, with a special emphasis on number and gender in Spanish. We address two sets of questions: (i) are number and gender bundled together or do they constitute separate categories, and (ii) does the internal feature composition of number and gender follow a single- or a multi-valued system? Given the lack of consensus on these issues based on primary data, we approach these questions experimentally, using the phenomenon of agreement attraction: a situation in which ungrammatical sequences are perceived as grammatical when one of the NPs is erroneously identified as determining agreement. Our results offer novel support in favor of an agreement model in which number and gender are in separte projections and are valued independently. In addition, our results indicate that number but not gender in Spanish is multi-valued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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37. A formalização da percepção da vogal baixa nasalizada do espanhol à luz do modelo BiPhon: estudo comparativo de fragmentos das gramáticas de falantes nativos e de brasileiros adquirindo o Espanhol como língua estrangeira.
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Brisolara, Luciene Bassols, Matzenauer, Carmen Lúcia Barreto, and Azevedo, Roberta Quintanilha
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NATIVE language , *SURFACE structure , *SPANISH language , *VOWELS , *GRAMMAR - Abstract
A formal perspective is the focus of this paper, which aims to discuss and represent the perception of nasalization of vowel /a/ in certain nasal contexts, a phenomenon of allophony in Spanish, which can be either phonological or allophonic in Portuguese. Empirical support is based on data from 9 native speakers from Montevideo, Uruguay, and 15 Brazilian learners of Spanish as a second language. Perception data, taken from studies carried out by Brisolara and Matzenauer (2018a, 2018b), were obtained by an Identification Test, which was run by the TP software program (RAUBER et al., 2012). The fact that the Uruguayan have lower accuracy than the Brazilian to identify nasalized vowels is attributed to the strict allophonic nature of the phenomenon in Spanish. It was captured and formalized by the Bidirectional Processing and Grammar Model -- BiPhon (BOERSMA, 2006, 2007; BOERSMA; HAMANN, 2009), which integrates the Stochastic Optimality Theory. Since perception, according to BiPhon, has the role of mapping continuous phonetic representation to a discrete phonological surface structure, the phenomenon related to the perception of nasalization of the vowel /a/ in Spanish was formalized in a way that represented, through the interaction between Cue Constraints and Structural Constraints, the difference between grammars of Brazilian Spanish learners and of Uruguayans: the weight of the *VORALN and *Vnasal Structural Constraints was decisive in specifying both grammars, and the proximity of the central values of the Structural and Cue Constraints represented the presence of variation in the perception data of the Uruguayan and the Brazilian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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38. LA GRAMÁTICA ESPANHOLA PARA PORTUGUESES (OPORTO, 1947) DE JULIO MARTÍNEZ ALMOYNA: CARACTERÍSTICAS METODOLÓGICAS.
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de León Romeo, Rogelio Ponce
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SPANISH language , *GRAMMAR , *MICROSTRUCTURE , *TEXTBOOKS ,SPANISH history - Abstract
This paper analyzes aspects of a little-known work in the context of grammar and history of Spanish language teaching in Portugal, the Gramática espanhola para uso dos portugueses (Oporto, 1947) by Julio Martínez Almoyna: the possible reasons for its publication in Portugal in the mid-twentieth century, the structure of the lessons and its didactic characteristics. Regarding the first aspect, the writing of the work is framed in the Luso-Spanish socio-political context of the time. Regarding specifically methodological issues, we analyze in detail the microstructure of the lessons and the underlying didactic criteria. In order to examine the didactic characteristics of the manual, we put it in contrast with other works published in Portugal for the teaching of Spanish; specifically, the Gramática elemental de la lengua española (Lisbon, 1947), by Pablo Gayán Hernanz, and Español para lusitanos. Método práctico de lengua española (Coimbra, 1952), by José María Viqueira Barreiro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
39. LA DOBLE VIDA DE SU MERCED EN AMÉRICA ENTRE LOS SIGLOS XVI Y XIX.
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BERTOLOTTI, VIRGINIA and ÁLVAREZ LÓPEZ, LAURA
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SPANISH language ,LINGUISTICS ,SYNTAX (Grammar) ,GRAMMAR ,CORPORA - Abstract
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- 2020
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40. La construcción resultativa del inglés en contraste.
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París, Luis
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GRAMMAR , *SYNTAX (Grammar) , *SEMANTICS , *ENGLISH language , *SPANISH language - Abstract
This paper has two intertwined objectives that are consistent with the overall goal of using an interface grammar to describe different contrasts among languages. The first one is to describe the internal structure of the English resultative construction or KR, to characterize a representative sample of the KR subtypes and to render explicit the syntax-semantics interface conditions that make it possible. KR is a Macroevent that fuses two Events--an Activity and an Event proper--in the temporal sequence of a 'causal course of Events' so that this Event is the Result of the Activity. In order to reach this characterization, it is necessary to subsume Manner under Activity, Result under Change and CAUSE under 'causal course of Events'. The second objective is to expose the features that license the presence of KR in English while permitting a scarce presence of it in Spanish. KR is the Macroevent that complements the prototypical English Event, which opposes to Spanish in so far as it projects an Activity as main verb while the Spanish Event projects an Event proper. Thus, KR is not a complementary structure for the Spanish Event. Furthermore, KR reflects the typical 'open' combinatory English style, which is quite different from the Spanish 'close' one. This means that English allows for an open set of semantic relations between two words under the same structure while Spanish prefers to reduce them to (likely) one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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41. English and Spanish speakers' interpretations of L2 Chinese applicative double object constructions.
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Huang, Yuhsin and Yuan, Boping
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LANGUAGE & languages ,GRAMMAR ,NATIVE language ,ENGLISH language ,SPANISH language - Abstract
This article reports an empirical study investigating whether English and Spanish speakers can reconstruct thematic structures in their second language (L2) grammars of Chinese Double Object Constructions. Data collected from an acceptability judgement task and an animation matching task suggest that learners are able to reconstruct L2 grammars to accommodate new target properties. However, it is also found that learners have difficulty removing thematic relations transferred from their first language (L1), implying that adult L2 grammars might permanently deviate from grammars of native speakers. The difficulty is accounted for on the basis of Yuan's (2014) Dormant-Feature Hypothesis, which assumes Full Transfer and that if the input provides no evidence confirming or disconfirming the transferred property, the property will lose its vigour and become dormant. This dormant status leads to random behaviours in L2 judgements and interpretations. This is confirmed in this study, in which English speakers are found to transfer one interpretation of indirect objects from their L1 and Spanish speakers are found to transfer two interpretations from their L1 that are not instantiated in the target language Chinese. Due to the misleading evidence in the Chinese input that shares surface similarity with the transferred property, English speakers are hindered from restructuring their L2 grammars, and the transferred interpretation remains active. On the other hand, the absence of informative evidence in the Chinese input leaves the two transferred interpretations to a dormant status in Spanish speakers' L2 Chinese grammars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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42. Hacia una gramática castellana para la escuela secundaria: opciones y desplazamientos a mediados del siglo XIX.
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de Arnoux, Elvira Narvaja
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SPANISH language education ,GRAMMAR ,SECONDARY education ,SPANISH language ,HISTORY of education ,EDUCATION & society ,NINETEENTH century ,SYNTAX (Grammar) - Abstract
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- 2014
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43. LA FUNCIÓN SEMÁNTICA DEL COMPLEMENTO PREPOSICIONAL NOCIONAL Y LOCAL.
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BARRAJÓN LÓPEZ, ELISA
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SPANISH language ,GRAMMAR ,SEMANTICS research ,LINGUISTICS research ,SEMANTICS - Abstract
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- 2014
44. Se azotaron a los delincuentes : A Case Study in Arbitrary Exclusion.
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MacKenzie, Ian
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ACCUSATIVE case (Grammar) , *SPANISH language , *CORPORA , *GRAMMAR , *LINGUISTICS , *GRAMMATICALITY (Linguistics) - Abstract
This paper looks at the stigmatized use of impersonal se with a plural verb and the prepositional accusative. While this pattern occurs commonly in speech and many forms of writing, it has to all intents been airbrushed from academic consideration of Spanish. On the one hand, the normative authorities dismiss it as an error and on the other it is studiously ignored by professional linguists. Given the pattern's de facto productivity, it is argued in this paper that its exclusion from the standard corpus is essentially arbitrary, the result of a priori assumptions about what should be possible in grammar rather than detached scientific consideration of what actually occurs. More specifically, both prescriptive grammar and theoretical linguistics take it as axiomatic that (in languages like Spanish) number agreement on the finite verb is determined by the subject and never by the object. The pattern discussed here is irreconcilable with that view and, accordingly, has come to be treated as a non-legitimate datum. The case thus provides a good illustration of how the concept of grammaticality, supposedly the empirical foundation of modern syntax, may be no less arbitrary than the older normative principle of correct usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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45. Speaking of shape: The effects of language-specific encoding on semantic representations.
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Perniss, Pamela, Vinson, David, Seifart, Frank, and Vigliocco, Gabriella
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COMPARATIVE linguistics ,SEMANTICS ,ENGLISH language ,SPANISH language ,BORA language ,COGNITIVE processing of language ,GRAMMAR ,COGNITIVE science ,MONOLINGUALISM - Abstract
The question of whether different linguistic patterns differentially influence semantic and conceptual representations is of central interest in cognitive science. In this paper, we investigate whether the regular encoding of shape within a nominal classification system leads to an increased salience of shape in speakers' semantic representations by comparing English, (Amazonian) Spanish, and Bora, a shape-based classifier language spoken in the Amazonian regions of Columbia and Peru. Crucially, in displaying obligatory use, pervasiveness in grammar, high discourse frequency, and phonological variability of forms corresponding to particular shape features, the Bora classifier system differs in important ways from those in previous studies investigating effects of nominal classification, thereby allowing better control of factors that may have influenced previous findings. In addition, the inclusion of Spanish monolinguals living in the Bora village allowed control for the possibility that differences found between English and Bora speakers may be attributed to their very different living environments. We found that shape is more salient in the semantic representation of objects for speakers of Bora, which systematically encodes shape, than for speakers of English and Spanish, which do not. Our results are consistent with assumptions that semantic representations are shaped and modulated by our specific linguistic experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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46. PRONOMBRES CON INVENTARIOS ABIERTOS?
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Satorre Grau, Francisco Javier
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PRONOUNS (Grammar) ,SPANISH language ,GRAMMAR ,SCHOLARS ,TERMS & phrases ,LINGUISTICS - Abstract
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- 2012
47. Cuantificación e intensificación: algunas notas sobre re e ité en el español del Cono Sur.
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Kornfeld, Laura
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SPANISH language ,GRAMMAR ,ADJECTIVES (Grammar) ,ADVERBS (Grammar) ,PREPOSITIONS ,NOUNS ,VERBS ,SENTENCES (Grammar) - Abstract
It is the purpose of this paper to analyze the grammatical behavior of two elements of Southern Cone Spanish described in the relevant literature as affixes: re and ité. Both share a number of morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. For instance, they may be combined with different categorial classes (adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, verbs, nouns, and sentences) and they receive a similar appreciative meaning ('very', 'much', 'certainly', 'great' or 'true', depending on the categorial combination). Besides, both are used in informal speech, in the Rio de la Plata Spanish, mainly among the young people (re), and in the Paraguaian Spanish in contact with Guarani (ité). The proposed analysis of these elements follows the lines of Distributed Morphology, intending to reduce both the number of lexical entries and the inventory of formal features in syntax. Additionally, we expect to make a contribution to the general discussion about the concepts of quantification and intensification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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48. ¿Realmentes existen?: la "pluralización" de los adverbios en -mente en español actual.
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Felíu Arquiola, Elena and Pato, Enrique
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NUMBER (Grammar) , *SPANISH language , *CORPORA , *GRAMMATICALIZATION , *SPEECH pattern - Abstract
This paper presents a non-normative phenomenon almost unknown in Spanish, the "pluralization" of adverbs in -mente (lugares realmentes sorprendentes 'places really surprising'), which is not found in the main grammars of this language. From the data of Corpus del español we propose to make known this phenomenon, to show in which countries it is documented and with what frequency. Later, we analyze which adverbs in -mente show this final -s in current Spanish and in what syntactic contexts are given. In particular, we show that the kind of adverbs that are involved in this phenomenon are degree, modality, and focusing adverbs, mainly when they modify adjectives or sentences. Finally, we propose an explanation of the presence of this final -s based on two different processes that the Spanish language undergoes in the grammatical category of adverbs: adverbial agreement, which so far has been described for quantifier adverbs, and adverb "false" pluralization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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49. LENGUAJE Y TECHNÉ: LA GRAMÁTICA DE LAS AMÉRICAS.
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Arroyo, Jossianna
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SPANISH language , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *PLURALISM ,LATIN American wars of independence, 1806-1830 - Abstract
This paper analyzes the role of Simón Rodríguez, especially that of his work American societies, from the perspective of the social actors who would have intervened in a national and republican inclusive project. With an in-depth knowledge of Rodríguez's ideas relating to indigenous and Afro-American populations, the paper argues that his project would have best represented the construction of pluralistic societies more in tune with the libertarian and democratic ideals that motivated the independence movements in the first place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
50. From hearsay evidentiality to samesaying relations
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Etxepare, Ricardo
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SPANISH language , *CLAUSES (Grammar) , *SPEECH acts (Linguistics) , *COMPLEMENT (Grammar) , *VERB phrases , *GRAMMAR , *SYNTAX (Grammar) , *LINGUISTICS research - Abstract
Abstract: Main clauses in Spanish optionally include a root complementizer. The presence of the complementizer adds a reportative component to the meaning of the clause. This paper attempts to characterize more precisely the kind of grammatical object represented by those reports. It argues that the Spanish main clause reports must be analyzed as instances of quotative constructions, and that the latter must be represented as involving an underlying predication between a clausal constituent and a quotative predicate. This predicate is overt in many languages, but silent in Spanish. The paper provides syntactic arguments in support of this hypothesis, as well as a comparison between the properties of those constructions and hearsay evidentiality, which is argued to be a different phenomenon. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2010
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