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Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese and Spanish

  • Manuel Delicado Cantero
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Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces
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Abstract

This chapter explores the nature and scope of two non-normative phenomena typical of Portuguese and Spanish: dequeísmo and queísmo. In so doing, it concentrates on specific goals: to establish coherent definitions for both languages that provide a lens through which to re-examine the data, to test the scope of the existing labels – both in the present and in the past–, to highlight discrepancies in the analyses presented in literature, and finally to comment on the theoretical implications derived from such tasks.

Abstract

This chapter explores the nature and scope of two non-normative phenomena typical of Portuguese and Spanish: dequeísmo and queísmo. In so doing, it concentrates on specific goals: to establish coherent definitions for both languages that provide a lens through which to re-examine the data, to test the scope of the existing labels – both in the present and in the past–, to highlight discrepancies in the analyses presented in literature, and finally to comment on the theoretical implications derived from such tasks.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Comparative perspectives in diachrony
  5. The position of Ibero-Romance in the Romania and of Portuguese within Ibero-Romance 11
  6. Syntactic change in Portuguese and Spanish 35
  7. Judeo-Spanish in contact with Portuguese 65
  8. Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese and Spanish 95
  9. Part II. Comparative perspectives in synchrony
  10. On the partially divergent phonology of Spanish, Portuguese and points in between 123
  11. The intonational phonology of Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese 151
  12. Similar and differing patterns of allomorphy in the Spanish and Portuguese verbs 175
  13. On clitic attachment in Ibero-Romance 203
  14. Two kinds of differential object marking in Portuguese and Spanish 237
  15. Part III. Portuguese and Spanish in contact in communities and individuals
  16. Sociolinguistic continuities in language contact situations: 263
  17. Mirandese in contact with Portuguese and Spanish 295
  18. On the structural basis of non-redundant acquisition 317
  19. Cross-linguistic transfer of core aspectual conceptualizations in Portuguese and Spanish 335
  20. Part IV. Portuguese and Spanish in the Iberia and in the Americas
  21. A historical perspective of Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Spanish varieties in the Iberia Peninsula 359
  22. Form selection in contact languages 377
  23. Portuguese remnants in the Afro-Hispanic diaspora 403
  24. Variation and change in Latin American Spanish and Portuguese 443
  25. Index 465
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.1.06can

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Comparative perspectives in diachrony
  5. The position of Ibero-Romance in the Romania and of Portuguese within Ibero-Romance 11
  6. Syntactic change in Portuguese and Spanish 35
  7. Judeo-Spanish in contact with Portuguese 65
  8. Dequeísmo and queísmo in Portuguese and Spanish 95
  9. Part II. Comparative perspectives in synchrony
  10. On the partially divergent phonology of Spanish, Portuguese and points in between 123
  11. The intonational phonology of Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese 151
  12. Similar and differing patterns of allomorphy in the Spanish and Portuguese verbs 175
  13. On clitic attachment in Ibero-Romance 203
  14. Two kinds of differential object marking in Portuguese and Spanish 237
  15. Part III. Portuguese and Spanish in contact in communities and individuals
  16. Sociolinguistic continuities in language contact situations: 263
  17. Mirandese in contact with Portuguese and Spanish 295
  18. On the structural basis of non-redundant acquisition 317
  19. Cross-linguistic transfer of core aspectual conceptualizations in Portuguese and Spanish 335
  20. Part IV. Portuguese and Spanish in the Iberia and in the Americas
  21. A historical perspective of Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Spanish varieties in the Iberia Peninsula 359
  22. Form selection in contact languages 377
  23. Portuguese remnants in the Afro-Hispanic diaspora 403
  24. Variation and change in Latin American Spanish and Portuguese 443
  25. Index 465
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