Spanish Clitics on the Move Variation in Time and Space

The series Studies in Language Change presents empirically based research that extends knowledge about historical relations among the world's languages without restriction to any particular language family or region. While not devoted explicitly to theoretical explanations, the series hopes to...

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Main Author Mayer, Elisabeth
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2017
De Gruyter Mouton
De Gruyter, Inc
Walter de Gruyter Inc
Edition1
SeriesStudies in Language Change [SLC]
Subjects
Clitics
Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Language Change
Spanish language
Spanish language-Clitics
Syntactic Theory
Syntactic Theory
Language Change
Clitics
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ISBN1614514216
9781614514213
1614515883
9781614515883
DOI10.1515/9781614514213

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Table of Contents:
  • 4.4 Clitic evolution by reanalysis -- 4.4.1 Drivers of change - gender and number -- 4.4.2 Morphological simplification in Limeño Spanish contact varieties -- 4.5 Summary of argument thus far -- 4.6 Differential object marking and information structure -- 4.7 The notion of secondary topic -- 4.7.1 Previous accounts for Spanish -- 4.8 Correlation of case marking and information structure -- 4.8.1 Topic vs. focus -- 4.8.2 Topic and secondary topic -- 4.9 Anaphora and topic/object drop -- 4.9.1 Morphological blocking -- 4.10 Summary -- 5 Variation and continuity in time and space -- 5.1 Agreement in time and space -- 5.1.1 Peninsular Spanish leísmo, loísmo, laísmo -- 5.1.2 Limeño Spanish contact varieties -- 5.1.3 Invariant lo -- 5.2 Leísmo/laísmo doubling -- 5.2.1 The dative-accusative alternation in contact Spanish -- 5.3 Floating agreement in clitic clusters -- 5.3.1 Person-Case Constraint and case syncretism -- 5.3.2 Clitic clusters variability -- 5.4 Object drop and anaphoric recoverability -- 5.4.1 Ecuador -- 5.4.2 Brazilian Portuguese and Paraguayan Spanish -- 5.4.3 Basque Spanish -- 5.5 Summary -- 6 Contact and change -- 6.1 Contact in Peruvian Spanish -- 6.1.1 Comparison with Basque -- 6.2 Amazonian Spanish -- 6.2.2 Contact with Brazilian Portguese -- 6.2.3 Contact with Ashaninka -- 6.2.4 Contact with Yagua -- 6.2.5 Quechua -- 6.2.6 Andean Spanish -- 6.3 The pointing effect of lo and (-ta) -qa -- 6.3.1 Topicality vs. transitivity -- 6.3.2 Primary object and secondary object marking -- 6.3.3 Semantic roles -- 6.3.4 Mapping of thematic roles to grammatical functions -- 6.3.5 Two primary objects? -- 6.3.6 Object behaviour -- 6.4 Object alternations -- 6.4.1 Disambiguation/Agency -- 6.4.2 Affectedness -- 6.4.3 Telicity -- 6.5 Double object constructions -- 6.5.1 Dative alternation -- 6.5.2 Dative vs. oblique -- 6.5.3 Ethical datives
  • 6.5.4 Ethical datives in passivization -- 6.6 Summary -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Index
  • Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Clitics and argument marking -- 1.2 Variability and innovations in argument marking -- 1.2.1 Differential object marking -- 1.2.2 Clitic doubling -- 1.3 Variability in clitic systems -- 1.4 The corpus of fieldwork data -- 1.5 Sociohistory -- 1.5.1 Data background -- 1.5.2 Migration, contact and bilingualism -- 1.6 Contact and change -- 1.7 Variability in language -- 1.8 Theoretical framework -- 1.9 Organisation of the book -- 2 The nature of clitics -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Romance clitichood: bound or free forms -- 2.3 Dative clitic vs. accusative clitic -- 2.4 Specific lo (la) environments -- 2.4.1 Lo as propositional anaphoric topic marker -- 2.4.2 Determiner cliticization -- 2.4.3 An attempt at accommodating determiner clitics -- 2.5 Clitic placement and alignment constraints -- 2.5.1 Surface constraints -- 2.5.2 The Person-Case Constraint -- 2.5.3 Markedness constraints -- 2.6 Summary -- 3 Objects, case and clitic doubling -- 3.1 Objects and casemarking -- 3.2 Clitic doubling -- 3.2.1 Dialectal variability and evolving clitic doubling sections -- 3.2.2 Agreement and crossreferencing -- 3.3 Referential categories -- 3.3.1 Definiteness vs. specificity -- 3.3.2 Animacy -- 3.3.3 Differential object marking, specificity and clitic doubling -- 3.4 A Lexical-Functional Grammar view of clitic doubling -- 3.4.1 From constituent structure to functional structure -- 3.4.2 Grammatical functions -- 3.4.3 Optional PRED PRO -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 From syntax to information structure -- 4.1 The concept of differential object marking -- 4.2 Two-dimensional differential object marking -- 4.3 Differential object marking, topicality and clitic doubling -- 4.3.1 Optionality -- 4.3.2 Non-specificity -- 4.3.3 Extended differential object marking
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Chapter 4. From syntax to information structure --
  • References --
  • Abbreviations --
  • Chapter 6. Contact and change --
  • Chapter 2. The nature of clitics --
  • Index
  • Chapter 1. Introduction --
  • Frontmatter --
  • List of tables --
  • Table of contents --
  • Chapter 3. Objects, case and clitic doubling --
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion --
  • Chapter 5. Variation and continuity in time and space --