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Un caso de variación pragmático-discursiva: que inicial en tres variedades dialectales del español
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This paper presents a corpus-based interactional analysis of non-embedded indicative que-clauses (IQCs) in three regional varieties of Spanish (Madrid, Spain; Santiago de Chile, Chile; and Buenos Aires, Argentina), using data from the corpus COLA (Corpus Oral del Lenguaje Adolescente). On the one hand, we show that IQCs exhibit regional variation regarding the discourse contexts in which they appear: not all contexts are equally available for each regional variety. Moreover, we argue that this variation can be placed on a cline that ranges from high discourse dependency to low discourse dependency, which might, in turn, suggest a divergent evolution of IQCs in the dialectal spectrum of Spanish. On the other hand, our analysis complements previous typologies of IQCs in two respects: (i) it describes the discourse contexts in which different types of IQCs are used, and (ii) it shows specific contexts and interpretations that had not been explicitly acknowledged in existing generative studies.
Language
Spanish
Source (journal)
Romanistisches Jahrbuch. - Berlin
Publication
Berlin : 2020
ISSN
0080-3898
DOI
10.1515/ROJA-2020-0012
Volume/pages
71 :1 (2020) , p. 271-304
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UAntwerpen
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What can language variation tell us about insubordination? A comparative analysis of independent complement clauses in geographical and stylistic varieties of Spanish.
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Creation 19.01.2021
Last edited 23.06.2023
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