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Chapter 2. Mood selection in a contact variety

The case of Yucatec Spanish
  • Kathryn Bove
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Variation and Evolution
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Abstract

Researchers have noted unique qualities of Yucatec Spanish with regard to phonetics, syntax, and pragmatics (Bove, 2019; Hoot, 2016; Michnowicz, 2009, 2012; Solomon, 1996, 1999). The objective of this study is twofold: to describe mood in Yucatec Spanish and to identify how bilingual and monolingual speakers’ mood selection differs. Results indicate that volitional predicates categorically license subjunctive while alternation exists under emotive and epistemic predicates. This alternation highlights statistically significant differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers of Yucatec Spanish (p = 0.01 and 0.04 respectively). Emotive predicates pattern with previous accounts of Mexican Spanish (e.g., Lope Blanch, 1989), but unanticipated subjunctive selection in epistemic assertions, interrogatives, and statements with past temporal reference highlight a difference between monolingual and bilingual participants.

Abstract

Researchers have noted unique qualities of Yucatec Spanish with regard to phonetics, syntax, and pragmatics (Bove, 2019; Hoot, 2016; Michnowicz, 2009, 2012; Solomon, 1996, 1999). The objective of this study is twofold: to describe mood in Yucatec Spanish and to identify how bilingual and monolingual speakers’ mood selection differs. Results indicate that volitional predicates categorically license subjunctive while alternation exists under emotive and epistemic predicates. This alternation highlights statistically significant differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers of Yucatec Spanish (p = 0.01 and 0.04 respectively). Emotive predicates pattern with previous accounts of Mexican Spanish (e.g., Lope Blanch, 1989), but unanticipated subjunctive selection in epistemic assertions, interrogatives, and statements with past temporal reference highlight a difference between monolingual and bilingual participants.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Social and linguistic factors shaping language dynamics across the Spanish-speaking world 1
  4. Part I. Morpho-syntax & semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in nominal clause complements 11
  6. Chapter 2. Mood selection in a contact variety 33
  7. Chapter 3. A corpus analysis of the structural elaboration of Spanish heritage language learners 55
  8. Chapter 4. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in the Andean Spanish verb 75
  9. Part II. Phonetics & phonology
  10. Chapter 5. Realizations of /b/ in the Spanish of Lima, Peru 107
  11. Chapter 6. Did you say peso or beso ? 127
  12. Chapter 7. Sheísmo in Montevideo Spanish 163
  13. Part III. Language attitudes & choice
  14. Chapter 8. ‘Debemos aprender y manejar un poco mejor el español’ 189
  15. Chapter 9. Language choice and use by bilingual preschoolers 211
  16. Chapter 10. Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting Quechua 231
  17. Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language 253
  18. Index 275
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.02bov

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Social and linguistic factors shaping language dynamics across the Spanish-speaking world 1
  4. Part I. Morpho-syntax & semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in nominal clause complements 11
  6. Chapter 2. Mood selection in a contact variety 33
  7. Chapter 3. A corpus analysis of the structural elaboration of Spanish heritage language learners 55
  8. Chapter 4. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in the Andean Spanish verb 75
  9. Part II. Phonetics & phonology
  10. Chapter 5. Realizations of /b/ in the Spanish of Lima, Peru 107
  11. Chapter 6. Did you say peso or beso ? 127
  12. Chapter 7. Sheísmo in Montevideo Spanish 163
  13. Part III. Language attitudes & choice
  14. Chapter 8. ‘Debemos aprender y manejar un poco mejor el español’ 189
  15. Chapter 9. Language choice and use by bilingual preschoolers 211
  16. Chapter 10. Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting Quechua 231
  17. Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language 253
  18. Index 275
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